The British Broadcasting Corporation on Thursday morning (IST) telecast the controversial documentary in UK featuring one of the December 16 gang-rape convicts despite Indian government's call to block the film worldwide.
The BBC nonetheless showed India's Daughter, which sketches the troubling tale of a 23-year-old woman who was raped by six men inside a private bus, sustaining injuries so profound that she later died.
In this controversial documentary , Nirbhaya's Rapist Blames Her For The Rape, Says She Shouldn't Have Fought Back! The documentary is an eye opener for all those Indians who believe they are living in 21st Century India.
Home Minister of India Rajnath Singh made a speech on the Nirbhaya Documentary in Parliament .His speech to ban the video in India created a heated debate in the Parliament. Jaya Bachchan, Meenakshi Lekhi, Ambika Soni take a stand on Nirbhaya documentary issue asked the government to take strict actions and come to a decision about the rapist, at the earliest . In a moment of fury, Jaya also asked the government to hand over the rapist to them (women's Rajya Sabha MPs led by Jaya), and they could 'take care' of him. Jaya Bachchan urged the members of the House of Parliament to take concrete actions instead of doling out empty promises.
Member of Rajya Sabha and well known lyricist Javed Akhtar also spoke strongly against the double standards of politicians who talk of such cases in the House, but refuse to expose the rapist's mindset to the larger public.
The video was made in UPA tenure and it shows incapability of the System to punish criminals charged with serious crimes like rape. To your surprise the Juvenile who is charged for the rape of Nirbhaya will be released in this December 2015. Law has its own course and the existing law cannot punish a Juvenile rapist for more than 3 years.
BBC comes with a documentary about probably one of the worst crimes in the history of mankind. And what is the title ? India's Daughter, This is a list of some of the previous articles written in the BBC about India.
Snakecharmer sparks office panic
Indian snake charmers 'held photographer captive'
The cash machine with a free cobra
The bull whose semen is worth $3,000 a shot
Cow dung burning ban near Taj Mahal
India cow row 'settled by DNA tests'
India rapist ordered to 'feed cows'
Indian monkey set to inherit fortune
Thieving monkey hands out money
India monkey 'wedding ceremony' held
India probes ID card for monkey god
Indian villagers mourn dead monkey
India hospital tackles rat epidemic
Wow, just wow. BBC has this to say about India. I ask you, how many of them were important articles ? I think most of them were means to ridicule us. What did they say when India started its Mars mission ? Well nothing much.
BBC comes to India, interviews the rapist, and his defense lawyer. Then shows their interviews in the documentary as if they are the voices of the nation.But as we all know that discussions do little good. Women's safety is about responsiveness in the time of trauma. There we are alone.
On the other side of the story, Indian officials, silencing the film on Youtube appears to be a top priority . Though, in the era of ubiquitous social media and in a country that relishes it, little can actually be "banned". Hundreds of thousands, if not more, have viewed the film on YouTube. And more than 300,000 people watched in the United Kingdom on Wednesday.
It is true that you cannot air the view of a convicted rapist to form an opinion of the "attitude of men" or "condition of women" . On the larger perspective the video depicts the irony of the system where narrow minded gender discrimination exists at the grassroot levels