#hathras never happened

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You know what's happening after the kerela story....muslim girls getting harassed by hindu boy's group in public and nobody's taking action as if they deserve to face this ....so this is what's happening after the kerela story aka targetting a specific community ( I'm not calling it propaganda I'm not saying it that they're exaggerating the incident when in reality they are definitely doing it) and if it was this massive incident as they showed in the movie then what was the government doing why are film makers only know the truth or are they creating it god knows but why don't hindus make their religious movies a hit why does only a movie which target another community gets a hit why don't they protest the cruelty done by upper caste on the lower caste and don't you dare to say it doesn't happen ab coz lemme remind you hathras rape incident. Because the fact is SO CALLED SANATANIS LOVES OTHERS RELIGION MORE THAN THEIR OWN THEY WANT US TO CHANT JAI SHREEE RAM ....RAM JI KHUSH HONGE YE DEKH KAR THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN FOLLOWING AND EMBRACING THEIR OWN RELIGIONS THEY BELIEVE IN DISGRACING THE OTHER COMMUNITIES. and let's not forget what women had to face after every conflict every war every political agenda. It's definitely more than just a movie coz kinda similar to NAZIS IDEOLOGY OF CREATING HATRED FOR JEWS THROUGH MAKING MOVIES LIKE THIS.... I encounter with so many muslims in my daily life i would rather judge/ treat them on the basis of my own experience than an over exaggerated movie which supports the fascism the people of my country is facing. YOU PROVOKE THEM AND IF THEY CHOOSE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES YOU CALL THEM STONE PELTERS. IS THIS WHAT RAMNAVMI IS ABOUT....TO TAKE OUT YOUR SWORDS CHANT MULLA MADARCHOD INFRONT OF A MOSQUE AND EXPECT THEM TO APPRECIATE IT INSTEAD OF PELTING STONES LMAO

Broo No one can deny the suffering of victims, and I have deep compassion for them. Nevertheless, it is alarming to witness comparable incidents surfacing in various regions of the country after the Kerala incident. Furthermore, the movie makers could have chosen an alternative title, but instead, they decided to center the film around the Kerala story and imply that it represents the entire state.. like seriously🙄

While I acknowledge the suffering of victims, it is worrying to see similar incidents being reported in different parts of the country following the Kerala story...

It seems like many people are accepting the Kerala story depicted in the movie as true. Although I don't want to dismiss the possibility of it being a real issue, the large number of girls shown in the movie, 32,000, raises concerns. It makes me wonder what the state government and Central Government are doing to address this problem. It's a sad reality that no one is completely safe in our country. Moreover, while the movie shows the story of three individuals in Kerala, it would be important to also highlight the stories of the 40,000 missing girls from Bihar who are at risk of exploitation.

It's disheartening to see how many people remain silent and fail to raise questions about these incidents, while the stories of those who have suffered go unheard. Meanwhile, movies and documentaries are produced about terrorist organizations in other countries,wahh 👏👏but the struggles of rape victims in our own borders often go unnoticed.It's disheartening to see that when girls are raped in our own country, there is often a lack of accountability and outrage.

For example –

16th December 2012, a 23-year-old female physiotherapy intern was beaten, gang-raped, and tortured by 6 men in a private bus in which she was traveling with her friend. It took more than 6 years for the judiciary to the upheld death penalty for all the victims.

The Kathua rape case, an 8-year-old girl was raped and murdered in Rasana village near Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir. The accused were arrested and the trial began in Kathua on 16 April 2018 but the decision never came as early.

A 20-year old woman was gang-raped and killed in Haryana’s Rohtak allegedly by her jilted lover and a friend. The men later smashed her face with a brick and killed her. No calls taken by court and justice went undone

A 5-year-old girl deaf and dumb girl was raped by a 24-year-old man in Varanasi. The alleged grabbed her and took her to a farm where he raped her until morning. The hapless girl who could not raise an alarm was found in the morning in a pool of blood in the field. The girl is now admitted to a hospital and the accused is not yet punished.

A 19-year-old girl from Bihar was allegedly gang-raped by 6 men in front of her father. The justice looked nowhere near the victim and the case was not highlighted in the media.

12-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped and then beheaded by her 3 brothers and uncle in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district. No calls have been taken by the court till now.

You don't have an answer to this, do you??

We're not saying that you shouldn't watch the movie, but we would like to remind you to approach it with an open mind and without any preconceived notions. It's essential to avoid judging an entire community based on a few incidents. So, we encourage you to watch the movie, remain unbiased, and form your own opinion..

#the kerala story

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Varun Grover, Vir Das rally behind comedian arrested for 'indecent' remarks against Hindu deities

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/varun-grover-vir-das-rally-behind-comedian-arrested-for-indecent-remarks-against-hindu-deities-193091

One wonders what in the name of actual fuck is happening. First students, then activists, next journalists, now comedians. Are we leaving someone else who can potentially open their mouth and mood against every unwritten thing the government and the collective foolish intolerance of people is against? It's like we are made to forget everything while we are home with given how so many of these issues actually make their way to the mainstream media. It's scarily familiar thing to have in your conscience when you feel it's dangerous to say anything that could get you locked up just because it was something 'sensitive': don't we remember our history lessons? can't we recall how it all starts?

#yeah #bcs honestly it sucks? #and you feel sick everytime you hear stuff like this and wonder #jnu students never got proper investigation for what happened #got locked up instead more so bcs of certain names #we conveniently forgot jamia #aligarh uni #public defamation and picking out of activists on billboards in UP #hathras never happened #journalists didn't get arrested ever #and are certainly not pending to come out #caa and Assam camps can easily be left out of our memories #ram mandir fiasco #dilli danga? #pm funds possibly spent on bihar elections? #it's so like our medias are not doing their jobs and are spreading super obvious propoganda #it's so not like we need to get our news from youtube channels or comedians #it's so not like we are destructing our democracy #it isn't is it? #bcs I'm scared

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Topic: Why women from marginalized communities are prone to gender based violence?

On 14 October, 2020 something happened which made an anonymous village in Uttar Pradesh a point of unwanted police barricading and requisite media attention. Hathras turned into a battle ground for police, media and opposition parties.

The brutal murder of a Maneesha Valmiki with rape allegations on 4 men of upper caste community (TOI, 2020) had stabbed the country for the millionth time, it was bleeding for a daughter for the millionth time and was burning to stab ‘THEM’ for the millionth time.

Maneesha belonged to the Scheduled Caste community which is one of the marginalized communities in India. Marginalized communities in India include women, children, scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST), disabled and aged. These communities suffer from many crimes out of which crimes against women are the most. According to a report from the National Crime Report Bureau, there have been 300,000+ crimes registered against women in India which include assault to insult modesty (around 84,746 cases every year), rape attempts (around 5,729 every year), rapes (around 40,000 cases every year) and many more. But sadly this is not the height of human cruelness- the women from the SC and ST communities suffer even more. They are tortured by not alone the men of their own community but also other. There are 3500+ cases of rape of women from SC and ST communities per year, 47% of kidnapping and violence (including domestic violence) cases against women in India are against women from the SC and ST communities (Print, 2016).

But what are the reasons that these women are prone to gender based violence?

The reasons for frequent cases of domestic violence and sexual harassment in these communities are following:

• Lack of education- Education not only make people literate but also civilized. Education brings values in one’s life and since education status in these communities is rough, it is difficult to turn men into humans in this square. According to the 2011 census, only 28% of SCs and 29% of STs get primary education and the numbers for higher education are even lower. This leads many problems and lack of moral values and mutual respect is one of those.

• Mental frustration due to financial insecurity- Every second SC and every third SC in India is poor due to lack of proper education (Print, 2016). This financial insecurity creates pressure and frustration and women become the victim of the resultant rage.

• Lack of trusts in relationships- Since men are aware of their financial status, they also become aware of the fact that they are not satisfying their partner’s needs which makes them insecure about their relationship. They distrust makes them to put allegations of illegitimate relationships on their wives which leads to disputes which lead to acts of domestic violence.

• Poor growing environment: Since there is always an environment of violence in the household, the children tend to learn the same behavior that of their fathers and since there is lack of education in the community, they are unable to learn the right things and hence the same cycle continues.

Maneesha was murdered by men of upper caste community and this is quiet common in many rural parts of the country. The reasons for frequent cases of violence against women of SC/ST by men of other communities (upper caste’s with special reference) are:

• Lack of education

• Casteism- India follows a caste system which is the origin of many crimes like honor killing, harassment and public shaming, etc. Caste based sexual violence is one of the most prevalent crimes. People of upper caste look down to the lower castes by regarding them as untouchable and dirty. They regard them as their slaves and hence a dalit women is seen as a slave for enjoyment who has no right to question her master. Assaults are also often practiced to show the lower ones their place.

• Parenting- The upper caste families nurture their kids with the pride and feeling of superiority and make them believe that they are the foremost authority which makes the next generation to continue the same cycle of oppression.

• Social environment- Maneesha’s statement was not taken when she reached the police station and the police did not help to reach the dying girl to the hospital because of her caste. The Valmiki family was constantly oppressed by the villager and administration and officers.

The rural setting is largely inclined towards favoring the upper caste and hence the victims are always suppressed by not only commoners but also the local administration which terrorizes them from asking for justice.

• Caste based politics- The criminals from upper caste also get support from local politicians.

In a nutshell the entire system makes the marginalized community feel helpless and justice is never served. Our country is so differentiated by caste and religion that humanity is too large to fit in any part. There are thousands of Maneesha and there will be more if we don’t stop now!

By Palak Sharma

Refrences :

Print, T. (2016, December). www.theprint.in. Retrieved from www.theprint.in.

TOI. (2020). Yogi's UP turns into rape state. Hathras, U.P.: The Times OF India.

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‘Ka Pae Ranasingam’ movie review: A sketchy pay-per-view film

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‘Ka Pae Ranasingam’ movie review: A sketchy pay-per-view film

Its rudderless and painfully long narrative aside, the Aishwarya Rajessh-starrer is still a sharp commentary on the shortcomings of a functional democracy

It was an anticipated debut: a Tamil film releasing directly on a newly launched pay-per-view (PPV) platform.

But of course, Ka Pae Ranasingam did not arrive without hiccups. The film is available to view via the PPV service Zee Plex (for customers of DTH platforms), as well as the streaming platform ZEE5. Except it cannot be viewed using the OTT platform’s mobile app, at least not yet.

‘Ka Pae Ranasingam’

Cast: Aishwarya Rajessh, Vijay Sethupathy, Bhavani Sre, Vela Ramamoorthy, Rangaraj Pandey, Abhishek, Munishkanth

Director: P Virumandi

Storyline: A woman fights State apathy to bring back the body of her dead husband from abroad

Viewing Ka Pae Ranasingam via ZEE5 website was an experience, and not of the good kind. Exacerbating the displeasure of a stop-start viewing experience (slow streaming and sudden failure to support Google Chrome as a browser, to name a few) was the film’s runtime: 2 hours and 57 minutes.

It is the kind of time the Stanley Kubricks and Alfred Hitchcocks of the world didn’t need, but for some reason Tamil filmmakers seem to. Perhaps, it was director Virumandi’s way of giving maximum movie for the rental paid (₹199) that the editor’s role was deemed unnecessary.

Vijay Sethupathi and Aishwarya Rajessh in ‘Ka Pae Ranasingam’   | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

To put it simply, Ka Pae Ranasingam is painfully long. We are introduced to Ariyanachi (Aishwarya Rajessh) from a village in Ramanathapuram district. She is married to Ranasingam (Vijay Sethupathi), who is working on an off-shore oil plant in Dubai. One day, she gets the news that he is killed, and she is told a false reason for his death.

The future of PPV

There are other things of note that PPV platforms must keep in mind while fixing the rental price for a film. Movie buffs in Tamil Nadu are used to paying the price quoted by Zee Plex for Ka Pae Ranasingam for a complete theatrical experience. That means: watching the film on a computer browser and watching it on the big screen with air-conditioning and Dolby Atmos sound effects are two different things.

Also, relative to the pricing, the rental duration ought to be extended. Zee Plex affords only six hours to view the film once the play button is pressed, which, for a movie with nearly three-hour runtime, is both inadequate and illogical. If PPV services cannot afford the same luxury as an OTT platform (especially, the option of resuming playback at a later time), then its purpose will be deemed defeated.

The other major concern is power disruptions. PPV services operating in the West don’t need to account for unplanned power outages because they are almost unheard of, unlike in our country. What if you are two hours into a movie and then the power supply in your neighbourhood fails for the next four hours? Will there be a refund?

These questions are as yet unanswered, and these are besides issues like slow streaming. If PPV is to survive its initial interest phase, more relaxation in terms of rental fee, duration and playback time should be considered. Otherwise, PPV services will run into the brick walls fast being built by OTT platforms.

A distraught Ariyanachi then recounts her meeting Ranasingam, the water diviner, prior to their marriage. The screenplay adopts a non-linear narrative, and weaves together flashbacks and present-day happenings to give us a picture of Ranasingam — a man who leads from the front the villagers’ years-long fight to secure drinking water from the State.

Gradually, Ranasingam finds that the resistance he strived to build is fading, and so to secure the future of his family, he, too, heads abroad but never returns.

Back to the present day, and we see Ariyanachi made to run from pillar to post to bring back her dead husband: her journey takes her all the way to the Prime Minister of India; the filmmaker builds his screenplay by grabbing incidents that made headlines in the past few years and then turning them into scenes.

Due credit to Virumandi, the debutant filmmaker, for his writing (dialogues) is razor sharp in places.

There is also a touch of simplicity in the manner his scenes are crafted, an appreciable quality since most debut filmmakers fall for the trappings of Tamil cinema and try to go overboard with the drama quotient.

State apathy doesn’t hit you hard — or slap you across the face, if you will — like in a Shankar film. It happens, it is usual and there is nothing you can do to change it. There is no feeling of helplessness or desperation that these scenes leave in you. It doesn’t move you, at all, and that there is how reality sans fiction feels like. Think of the injustice that happened in Hathras days ago, and think of the nationwide outrage that followed… oh no, that was a dream!

Aishwarya Rajessh aces her role as Ariyanachi; hers is not a nuanced performance but it is a character she portrays with effortless ease. Maybe, affording your lead actor more screen time (or close-ups) could have helped.

This is the biggest gripe one is likely to have with Ka Pae Ranasingam. Vijay Sethupathi is, on paper, playing a cameo. But the spectre of Ranasingam looms large on the canvas of a film that should have instead been all about Ariyanachi. It is also a sign of how things work in Tamil cinema.

So long as this industry has more male-sponsored narratives of the female perspective of things, even the so-called ‘female-centric’ films will not permit its female lead to stamp their authority.

A tip of the hat to actor Abhishek, who despite the limited scope of his character (a Government official), was one of only three or four actors in the film who delivers a close-to-believable performance.

Despite its flaws, Ka Pae Ranasingam offers interesting commentary on State apathy. If you can gather enough patience to last its runtime in one sitting, and can also look past the shortcomings of its PPV host, Ka Pae Ranasingam can indeed be some experience.

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