Rape and Murder: Perspectives on Justice || Acharya Prashant
Full Video: Indian Constitution and Vedanta || Acharya Prashant, at SRCC (2023)
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00:00If it's a rape and murder case, then it would be mentioned in the media as a murder case as an aside, as a description it would be mentioned that the woman was raped before being murdered.
00:13What is more important is that a human life has been lost. But look at what happened in India.
00:1880% of the public outcry was because of the rape. Only 20% was because of the murder.
00:24It is rape that interests people. Are people really interested in the welfare of women? No.
00:29A woman is not allowed to work after marriage. Nobody cares. It doesn't make headlines at all.
00:34Women themselves are getting conditioned to look at themselves as mere bodies. Nobody cares.
00:40A woman is murdered. Even that is just a two-inch thing in some newspaper.
00:45But if it is a sensational rape case, then the entire country joins in.
00:50That will tell you our approach towards women's sexuality and the woman's body.