PROTEST AGAINST WOMEN WITCH HUNTING AT JANTAR MANTAR!
Even in this day and age, a large part of India still suffers from a medieval mindset.
In villages, vendetta is easy. A woman scorns your advances, just lable her a witch; or you want to take revenge on someone, just brand the women in his household ‘witches’. Simple. Now the mob mentality takes over, bringing out the demon and voyeuer within. All sorts of attrocities can now be comitted on these hapless women, and they are paraded nude in their villages, raped, their bodies mutilated, and all this justified on the alter of superstition.
Infact, they murder them openly but the saddest truth is no one questions. Based on this theme, a film has been directed by P.Srivastav by the name of ‘Kala Sach-The Black Truth’ which stars Pakhi hedge, Himani Shivpuri, Mushtaq Khan and many others.
To end these Superstitious archaic practices, which still demean and trivilize women, thousands of women gathered and questioned this. Women from Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Assam, Madhya Pradesh came to protest and discussed the harassment faced.
Forced to come to the Capital of India to protest, they innumerated their trevails of living in constant fear in a ‘so called democratic set up’. Even complaints to their Panchayats go unheeded. This is understandable as a lot of these panchayats not only condone, but encourage such practices.
Picture Credits : Sunny Mathews
