The Right propaganda

Right propaganda

I recently came across a half page advertisement from Delhi police against the menace of eve- teasing. There have been innumerous campaigns for curbing the problem but this one; unlike all the previous ones had a very different tone.

It was a desperate call to manhood of all those who turn their faces off any event of eve teasing. The typical Delhi culture of trying to be aloof of anyone else’s agony, was highlighted as well as challenged in that particular campaign. I feel that this is the need of the hour when people instead of wailing about the government nuclear policy, rise above being mute spectators, understand their social responsibility, and be pro-active citizens to save any woman of the harassment and embarrassment she faces on the hands of eve- teasers. What is the point in writing gigantic editorials, huge essays with a plethora of abstruse words on everything from global warming, US politics to presidential elections when our own social structure is craving for a radical change? I sometimes wonder, are we really mature to have a woman president while we cant help a lady on a bus stop?

The advertisement reminded me of a friend, who was trying to help a lady in a public bus but was admonished by his father, “This is not a movie where you help a girl, beat the goons and are acclaimed a hero!” and he was gently pushed back in his seat. This is exactly the way most of us think and that need to be rationalized. May be the fact need to be forged in his father’s mind that his daughter sometimes travels alone too.

I hereby would like to congratulate Delhi police for coming out with such a propaganda, which would definitely lift the morals of not just generation X but also people aged my friend’s father!