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By APD writer He Wei
Dangal was definitely the most popular movie of 2017 in which Indian film star Aamir Khan made a strong call for the equal right for the country’s women by training his daughters to be wrestler. Being a wrestler, for a girl, seems unacceptable to the India society.
The film reflects the status quo in the large southeast country. The human rights of women are undermined who are viewed as the property of men and are not allowed to create their own careers.
“Every twenty minutes, there will be a woman being raped,” the most seen words to describe India, a country with as much population as China. If you check on the website, “domestic violence,” “rape”, “human trafficking” and “child marriage” are sadly connected to India.
However, the story about resistance and redeeming begins with an Indian woman, who got married at the age of 12 and suffered from domestic violence since then. She is Sampat pal Devi.
Instead of swallowing the insult, Sampat would fight back every time she got bullied. Sampat pal Devi firmly believed that it is not a man’s privilege to beat women with women putting up with all their bad tempers.
Sampat once ran into a man punched his wife, she tried to save the woman, but the man was not stopped and even showed his fist to Sampat.
Sampat was haunted by the heartbroken cry of the woman, so she decided to fight the man back the next day. With the help of other five women, Sampat beat the man to beg for mercy.
A man was beaten by a group of women spread quickly across India, which made Sampat’s name famous.
After that, Sampat made her mind to help more women to resist violence. For most women, Sampat is a light of hope when the whole society for them has been cast the shadow of violence.
This is why Sampat established Gulaab Gang, a group with the members wearing pink long dress and holding a stick on hand to help the woman who suffering the violence.
A girl named Janki was forced to drink gasoline by her husband and mother in law, because she is infertile. The girl’s neighbor tried to save her but failed. Janki’s father came to the police officer to ask for help but with no reply. He finally turned to Sampat, with the help of Sampat, the police took on the case.
Did Sampat change the society to some degree?The answer is yes!
For the past 15 years, Gulaab Gang has attracted more than 400,000 supporters and now they help women in their career and education.
Sampat appeared on the cover page of Time Magazine.
As the pioneer of feminism, Virginia Woof calls for the awaking of feminine consciousness in her novels. It is the request for the equality between women and men.
The way out for India is probably the same.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
