Mr Dhume finds no reason to doubt the agenda western media has been carrying since the dec 2012.But here is something which contradicts his claim.Just few days ago documentary filmmaker of India’s daughter Anjali bhushan alleged that Leslie Udwin (producer and director of India’s daughter ) “coached” Mukesh the rapist and even attempted to get Nirbhaya’s parents to mouth the exact lines from the script outline that she was adamant on.
Though the allegations haven’t been proved yet there is a good chance that this might be true.
When the news of release broke out parliament witnessed outrage over this issue and Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said “there is a conspiracy to defame India and the documentary can be telecast outside”, Though a lot of our MPs supported the release and were of the view that India should not shy away from this.
Udwin described the documentary as “an impassioned plea for gender equality … This is a documentary I left my young children and the comfort of my home for, to spend two years dedicated to a crucial cause in the public interest of women, not just in India but worldwide,” she said.
Her intention appears to be flimsy or she is trying kill two birds with one stone the other Bird being India’s image worldwide.
Apart from the allegation made by Anjali bhushan there are a lot of other discrepancies in the way the film was shot and released.leslie Udwin had claimed to have spent two years In india but documentary film maker is granted a visa only for 6 months as per the rule and needs to be renewed time to time (there is no record that her visa was renewed) apart from this shooting Shooting a documentary on a tourist visa is not permissible under law. And She had originally sold the film not as India’s daughter but as “Delhi the Rape Capital of the World.”
She had not submitted the full, uncut footage of the interview for approval by jail authorities Which she denied saying that She said she had taken the full 16 hours of “raw, unedited footage” to the jail, but a three-member review committee, after watching it for three hours, told her: “We can’t sit through all this, it’s too long.” So she submitted an edited version which was cleared.
Coming back to the “Western conspiracy” I would like to quote maria wirth’s words from her blog https://mariawirthblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/why-this-focus-on-rapes-in-india-by-world-media/
While the whole country was burning in rage and the western media using it to demonize the country’s image world-wide. Most foreign newspapers and news channels carried out the report as if rape is a phenomenon which takes place only in India but none of them acknowledged the fact that countries in west are way ahead of India when it comes to sexual Violence. Media reduced India’s rape crisis to a cultural problem and Indian men–are culturally lacking and barbaric. The obsession woven around the hypothesis that Indian men are born and bred to sexually assault and degrade women and revolves around the Indian “rape culture”.
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones at others
Four months before the Delhi case in Steubenville, Ohio, a 16-year-old girl was raped by members of the high-school football team.The case is that the young woman was dragged, drunk and unresponsive, from party to party, where she was sexually abused. In contrast to India where the case lead to protests and demand for changes in law and raised question on the —————————————— the 16 year old victim of the Steubenville case was blamed.Not only the girl was raped but A Steubenville football player posted a 12-minute video related to the incident on YouTube that was deleted before police got the report. Quoting Emer O’Toole’s words from her Article Delhi gang-rape: look westward in disgust
“In Steubenville, football-crazy townsfolk blamed the victim and it took a blogger – Alexandria Goddard, who is now being sued – and a follow-up article from the New York Times four months after the incident to get nationwide attention for the story .”
It is Not India which is in denial of its rape culture but the west which they sadly don’t acknowledge.
The arrest In the Steubenville case took place only after the Delhi rape case became a global Issue. Cornering the fact that women are actually respected in India which lead people to come out on streets to fight for their respect the foreign media got busy in portraying as If India was the country of rapists and men in India were of bestial character.
This is a recent report carried out by International business times on the lines of Rape an epidemic in India
http://www.ibtimes.com/rape-india-epidemic-sexual-violence-against-women-children-rape-laws-arent-enough-2157704.
And continuing the propaganda LAtimes’s article http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-india-daughter-review-20151030-column.html
Writer Kenneth Turan finds the statement Jaw dropping, of course no crime is less than the other but I am sure if he cared to find out the ground reality of his own country and tried to interview the perpetrators or citizens of his own country he would that thinking is no different than ours.
What possibly could the convicts would have said?
Girls invite rape Girls deserve to get raped”
She was wearing skimpy clothes and hence she wanted to get raped
Well I would like to draw his attention towards similar remarks made by his own countrymen which of course he may not find jaw dropping
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8515592.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11409210/Drunk-or-flirty-rape-victims-often-to-blame-says-survey.html
This is not about which is lesser evil of the two but the constant effort to jeopardise India’s cultural image while hiding their own misogynist mindset
There are several other international cases which needed media attention, but the foreign media kept on highlighting India. The Rotherham Child abuse case, Vatican city child abuse and many more cases which didn’t get much airtime was given to these cases and were these places branded as the rape capital?Do they ever discuss the cultural baggage US/UK carry which encourages sexual violence? Or the attiude of men in western countries towards women? or how many headlines even clearly accused Pakistani men for Rotherham case,most headlines disguised them as men of Asian origin. How many news channels gave sound bites on Vatican city? Even when the The UN has accused the Vatican of “systematically” adopting policies allowing priests to sexually abuse thousands of children I don’t see investigative coverage of these cases by the media.And this ofcourse is fulled by our Eminent feminists who never dare to comment on atrocities carried out in other countries but always jump the gun whenever Rapes in india are mentioned.
If only Leslie Udwin had spared a thought for the girls in Rotherham or cared to interview Vatican’s paedophiles
Argument may arise that She can’t reach each and every rapist in the world but my question to them will be why Just India’s daughter. If she really wanted to help the victims and fight for gender equality how could she forget 1200 girls of Rotherham yes I can’t compare two rapes but definitely 5 men collectively raping 1200 girls definitely required her attention but amazingly I haven’t read any comments on that by her on this issue
I urge Ms Udwin to spend atleast a month in UK and tries to expose the UK’s police departments, courts, and politicians who worked so hard to cover up the issue for so long.
Bias of media in reporting these cases may have a religious connotation which was already mention by Niticentral http://www.niticentral.com/2014/12/23/rape-india-becomes-worldwide-story-292683.html deals with the notorious reporting carried out by the media as India is a hindu majority country and how this is used as a marketing tool by the evangelist. Indian mainstream media is no exception in covering up such crimes by priests and clerics.
India the made up rape capital
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
Now lets come to the part where one needs to challenge this theory of “Rape capital”
Reported rape statistics : source nationmaster.com
India stands on 94th number ————————————————–
Comparison of selected countries’ reported rape rates, 2012
Let us look at another survey by
UN crime trends survey said in the US, 27.3 rape cases were reported per lakh population, followed by 21.09 in Brazil and in case of India, there were 1.8 cases of rape per lakh population.
Much to my amusement that no Indian media challenged this hype created by western media. Aftermath of delhi gang rape was particularly hard for the India tourism sector. Worldwide promulgation of this case led to drop in tourism which severely affected the economy by 25%
As an Indian I am ashamed that women have to face such heinous crimes and the perpetrators roam around without compunction .No crime whether it takes place in US or UK or India is less pain inflicting than the others but I am saddened by the fact that the inferiority complex we have about our own country helped western media to make a great play of our patriarchal mind-set.The “Slumdog Millionaire” syndrome where with great pride we accepted Oscars for a movie which derided our country worldwide. We don’t’ think twice before saying “Yaar abroad me sahi hai ye sab wahan nahi hota”;” Mai to apne baccho ko abroad bhejne ki soch raha hun India safe nahi hai”. How easily we let the westerners get away with contrived, pretentious, absurd, hollow, inauthentic, pseudo-statement about India’s gender equality
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