We successfully banned it. Along with it goes the democracy and the freedom of expression. By expression I mean both the filmmaker's and the accused's. Why is it a sin for the accused to speak up what he thinks is right? Mind you it is only what he thinks not what is. Every dog has a say. Don't you watch news channel debates every night?
Not many Indians speak out for the documentary. Come on now. We spend day in day out on mega soaps that may not even end during our lifetime. Perhaps this is not a soap or not even a cricket match. But it is a bloody damn reality that we live in.
It is always the victims and not punishments that create awareness of the crime. This case is no different. But the so-called strong Indian leadership and its government chickened out. Going behind the filmmaker and banning the reality leaves their lives comfortably in denial. The denial, a legacy that is being carried on since 2002.
Amusing that the previous leadership who was termed as weak took the courage to grant permission to capture the reality. The current self-proclaimed strong leadership hides beneath a blanket of sentiments. In other words, fear.
Reality is wild. Even the most powerful ones do not have guts to venture out.
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