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Friday, June 8, 2012

Nandita Das: Why don’t we speak up?, Interview, NewAgeIslam.com

Interview
Nandita Das: Why don’t we speak up?
JYOTHI PRABHAKAR
4 Oct 2008

We are such strange people that till it isn’t, we never seem to get affected by anything. When things happen all around, we keep thinking ke woh toh wahan ho raha hai,” she says. “But what also is really scary is the growing prejudice. When there is an encounter, I don’t know if we should be so quick to conclude who it is, and thereby create prejudice against a whole community, against people who are the biggest sufferers because probably they have nothing to do with the terrorists. They’re probably cursing the terrorists much more than you and I are. Because apart from feeling all the fear you and I feel, they also have to bear the stigma, to hang their heads in shame without having done anything,” she adds with feeling.

However, ask if her if that’s made the city insecure and she shoots back, “Women ke liye yeh city hamesha unsafe raha hai. I’m sure that if we count the casualties of rape and molestation, the numbers will be far, far higher than that of a bomb blast...

But when it’s a blast, because it is part of our general collective fear of what is happening in the world, it becomes much bigger. But violence is also happening in many different forms.”

http://newageislam.com/nandita-das--why-don%E2%80%99t-we-speak-up?/interview/d/844


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