Unchaahi: against Female Foeticide in India

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Hi, it takes two kinds of attacks on women in mumbai to make me write this. One is an unearably cruel one -- where four people raped a woman and burnt her alive. Read the story and see if you can get the picture of her angelic children out of your mind. Do write in to the editor and the newspaper asking for capital punishment for the criminals. Write at mirrorfeedback@indiatimes.com and meenal.baghel@timesgroup.com.
The other seems a little more innocent but is strange nevertheless. Take a look at this article about Rani Mukherjee. The article is placed on the page where entertainment-related `news' stories are covered. In the middle of all that is a personal piece where the writer is attacking the actress on personal grounds. Read it and see if you can make sense of it -- he warns the actress of "younger faces" coming in the competition. Would an article about age and younger faces EVER be written about a top Bollywood male actor? Would this writer write something like this about SRK, Salman or even Saif? the answer is a resounding NO. It's much easier to pick on women, and ride on their insecurity about maintaining an unreasonably youthful look at all times. Shameful that Mumbai Mirror even carried this personal tirade in their paper.

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