He quoted Nirad C Chaudhary. "The average Indian male has sex on his mind and fear in his heart". And explained further, “Though we have sex on our minds, because of the fear in our hearts, imbibed from our value systems, there hasn’t been much violence against women. But lately, because of globalisation and other factors, the fear in the heart has been decreasing. Also, the sex on the mind is increasing, thanks to the soft porn in the media. This explains the increasing violence against women.”
And this was in response to a lady member of the UPSC interview board who asked HK why violence against women was increasing and what could be done about it.
Apart from the original thinking, presence of mind and maturity, it displays among other things a great sense of humor.
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I think its because of two contrasting factors. One which puts our society in a negative shade and the other which is slightly positive.
First is the intensely patriarchal setup of Indian society where male aggro is justified as only hormonal, as "boys will be boys" while any attempt by womenfolk to take control of their bodies is labelled as "slutty" behaviour. This social superstructure is now being reinforced by forces unleashed by Globalisation (Commodification of women, indignation due to loss of power, etc) evinced by ever falling sex ratio.
The positive factor is that women at least in urban areas are now less inclined to push such incidents under the carpet and stand for what's right as they have a semblance of economic independence ( hence less fear of social ostracisation ).
What do you think?
I have spent a lot of time thinking about this apparently 'uncomplicated' question.
In fact the points that came to my mind are erosion of 'Indian' values, economic independence of women and the freedom this offers in our metros, vulgarity gaining more acceptability in the mainstream manifesting itself as 'item-numbers' in bollywood and 'glamour' in fashion mags & some dailies, increasing westernisation thanks to satellite television,acceptance of 'bold' themes in TV soaps...and on it goes..
I know this makes me sound like a conservative patriarch !
Which is why I marvel at the brilliance of the answer( which I believe has played a huge part in giving him an all India rank of 14 ) that has effectively conveyed all that i have said in so many words, in a very simple, intelligent and attractive way.
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