DARE I BE A BIT DIFFERENT?
Feminists have, all along, demanded an level playing field and fought against ‘victim’ labels. Have tables been turned, with raucous baying against the rapacious desire of Indian media’s Christian Grey (from Fifty Shades of Grey, for whom elevators were a favorite hotspot)? Don’t get me wrong. I have been labeled a ‘feminist’ as I write usually for women, by women and of women. During earlier rapes cases that outraged all of us, I pleaded repeatedly for public exposure of rapists – which happened in the Nirbhay case -- and for all of us to move away from that dratted “Mera Raja Beta” syndrome, to teach boys to respect women from babyhood. A stage comes when one has to wonder what it’s all about? Hard on the heels of those gory gang rapes, TV channels blared the hounding of a woman by state agencies for their ‘Saheb’. Then L’affaire Tejpal took center stage! To shoo ‘Saheb’ and his lady i...