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This is how these songs and movies become popular; this music is corrupting the youth. Where are the ministers now, or the certifying jury who passes films or gives the green signal to songs?
A newsflash this morning… A 16 year old gang raped and killed by her cousins; her grandmother intervened and got raped.
We still live in a country where ‘getting raped’ is judged by the length of the clothes we wear. I am sure in the above news when you hear this you must have had an image of a girl in shorts and a grandmother in a suit or saree. You may also have imagined both in short clothes which is nearly impossible coz still we women are supposed to dress our age.
I scream and want an answer. Are our daughters, sisters, mothers, and even grandmothers safe? The answer is NO.
And what we do as good citizens? We tell our kids to “do good things” and then dance with them on the songs that normalise RAPE. Yes, we do.
Last night there was someone driving beside me, in full volume. The song was Aafat, from the new film Liger.
Everyone keeps talking of boycotting this and that – please go and listen to the song first and then decide and instead of boycotting the good changes let’s boycott such songs!
Let’s make this #hashtag viral #BoycottAafat. This song clearly shows that rape is normalised. At first, we get enervated by the lyrics but, in order to make the remix, Bollywood has used sound effects of ‘rape scenes’ from old movies.
“Chod do”-“Bhagwan ke le Jane do”.
What is this bullshit?! This is cleverly hidden behind the amazing beats that are very enjoyable, and these disturbing sounds have been put in as “sound mixing’! This is how these songs and movies become popular; this music is corrupting the youth. Where are the ministers now, or the certifying jury who passes films or gives the green signal to songs?
All those who just support and find reasons behind the rape, or think that ‘provocative clothes or nature of women’ results in rape, think of this cancer in our society. Ban such songs and work on law amendments where such cases don’t happen. Otherwise we could have many Daminis and Nirbhayas, not all of who come into the light where people will make a chain and don’t give up until they get justice. Usually, we see and read such news and we forget it, every single day. Many just die in dingy dark corners.
We indeed do not need such songs; we need more stringent laws, and no loopholes for rapists to be released. Do it for the sake of the nation. This is my plea to the lawmakers.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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