Acharya Prashant on how to save India's (Hindu) girls

Plus Modi regime doubles down on supporting a serial sexual predator; a feature film on crimes in India's sports and two short films on gender-based violence

Hello.

I was just back from a 3-day book tour and fatigue is yet to dissipate. So, I’ll recommend a number of highly relevant AV materials relating to sexual violence in India and the establishment’s ways of protecting the offenders whenever they happen to be its own.

First up, though, an in-depth talk in Hindi from Acharya Prashant on what it will take to protect millions of girls who are killed in early stages of life every year in India:

This discussion took place in the backdrop of toxic propaganda revved up in India by the right-wing media ecosystem after release of a propaganda film titled The Kerala Story. They have been trying to establish that India’s Hindu girls face an imminent threat of radicalization and conversion from Islamist radicals.

This talk by Prashant is a perfect antidote to all sorts of falsehoods and semi-truths that the rightist media ecosystem is propagating at this time.

Ironically, when the leaders of Indian governing party were busy promoting the propaganda film, serious allegations of sexual violence surfaced against a ruling party MP. Here is a synopsis from a senior journalist on why the Modi government has been dealing with the case the way it is:

Here is a magnificent Hindi cinema based on true story like that of Brij Bhusan Singh dealing with the dark underbelly of India’s sports:

Here are a couple of good fiction works dealing with sexual and domestic violence: