Only Rape Matters? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Rape and Retribution: Perspectives on Justice || Interview with Acharya Prashant (2019)

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00:00Woman is not allowed to work after marriage, nobody cares, it doesn't make headlines at all.

00:05A woman has unsafe work environment, doesn't matter, doesn't make headlines.

00:11A woman dies during childbirth, who bothers?

00:15Public spaces are not woman friendly, who bothers?

00:18Women themselves are getting conditioned to look at themselves as mere bodies, nobody cares.

00:25The number of women in higher education lags behind the number of men in universities,

00:31especially in professional education.

00:33That does not make for any sensational media report.

00:36A woman is murdered, even that is just a two inch thing in some newspaper.

00:42But if it is a sensational rape case, then the entire country joins in.

00:48Are we really concerned about women? Are we?