A Women's Honor || Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Ghar ki izzat. Why is the onus on the women? I mean, the whole notion of ravaging a woman becomes putting a nation down or putting a family down.

00:08If honor refers to my ability to keep my women subdued in the name of safety, then two hoots to such honor. Who wants this kind of honor?

00:17And that's what has happened. A person is honorable, a father is honorable, a family is honorable, a village or a tribe is honorable.

00:23If it can keep its women disciplined in order, marry them off as per the prescribed notions, and then everything can be said to be honorable.

00:33All these are very, very flawed, very violent, very ignorant notions of honor.

00:38And the real purpose of culture is to keep discarding such notions and cleansing itself from within.

00:45But instead, culture often becomes rigid and chooses to retain all the rubbish of the past.

00:51Yeah, yeah.

00:53Yeah, yeah.

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