New Delhi: India’s fastest growing news channel, News 24’s new show Badlenge Hum, Badlega India, focusing on the burning issues of the country is going viral on social networking sites.
The latest episode of the programme debated at length the psyche behind the remarks of December 16 rapists’ counsel AP Singh that girls invited rape by dressing up provocatively. News 24 Managing Editor Ajit Anjum initiated the debate on pertinent questions that have cropped up in the society ever since Singh
made these remarks on the day the court handed death sentence to four rapists: Are girls responsible for rape? Doesn’t the other half of India want freedom, just like its male counterpart? Will the Indian men ever change their outlook towards women? Why does an average Indian girl feel insecure and live in fear?
The debate saw sparks flying with young college students asking Singh whether rapes didn’t happen at homes whether provocative clothes were responsible for such incidents of rape.
Singh not only stuck to his guns but took his arguments ridiculous levels saying that less rapes took place in winter because girls are fully clothed.
Anjum reminded Singh that he had forgotten that the very persons he had defended were convicted and sentenced to deaths for the rape that took place at the height of winters: December 16.
Social activist and Alka Lamba said that her battle was with the outlook of people like Singh. Another activist Shaista Amber said that Singh should not be made to continue as a lawyer.
The social networking sites reflect a divided India on the issues raised by Singh’s controversial remarks. Thousands and thousands of people are attacking people like Singh while thousands have come out in support of Singh’s arguments.
There are the likes of Rai Bharti from Punjab who said on Facebook that 60 per cent of rapes were attributed to skin show in Bollywood films while 20 per cent of parents were responsible for rapes because they didn’t rein in their daughters.
But for every Rai Bharti, there were many like Madhuri Swami from Bikaner who asked Singh whether his logic of provocative clothes applied in cases whse like ere young six-year-old or seven-year-old girls were raped.
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