Aishwarya Rai does a 'Provoked' and India sits up.
"This happens in UK, not India. Women are worshipped here." This was one opinion.
"Only an Indian woman could have taken so much. They are used to so much of subjugation, they take it with their chins up." was another.
Really, you cannot draw geographical, communal and class lines where violence is concerned. One perpetrates violence and the other is so trapped that he or she lives with it with hope that it will end on a happier note someday, that there will be light at the end of the tunnel.
But the truth is that a violent person is in need of treatment, consultation and reorientation. He or she resorts to violence as a means of venting out or leashing out suppressed feelings. The victim often is in a dependent situation like that of a financial dependence or emotionally dependent one.
So the dependent person gets blackmailed into playing along and really does too because he or she fears that a revolt will harm either one or all of them.
What the close ones of the perpetrator must realise is that if the person is not given professional help in time, it could harm any or many of them in the long run.
It is a vicious cycle and needs intervention; which if it is not forthcoming from within, should arrive from without.
Because there's only so much that anyone can take.
"This happens in UK, not India. Women are worshipped here." This was one opinion.
"Only an Indian woman could have taken so much. They are used to so much of subjugation, they take it with their chins up." was another.
Really, you cannot draw geographical, communal and class lines where violence is concerned. One perpetrates violence and the other is so trapped that he or she lives with it with hope that it will end on a happier note someday, that there will be light at the end of the tunnel.
But the truth is that a violent person is in need of treatment, consultation and reorientation. He or she resorts to violence as a means of venting out or leashing out suppressed feelings. The victim often is in a dependent situation like that of a financial dependence or emotionally dependent one.
So the dependent person gets blackmailed into playing along and really does too because he or she fears that a revolt will harm either one or all of them.
What the close ones of the perpetrator must realise is that if the person is not given professional help in time, it could harm any or many of them in the long run.
It is a vicious cycle and needs intervention; which if it is not forthcoming from within, should arrive from without.
Because there's only so much that anyone can take.
