Who lost Honour? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: The female body, chastity and 'rape culture' || Acharya Prashant (2024)

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00:00If you're a rapist, no one says,

00:02Iski toh izzat lod gayi.

00:03He has lost his respect.

00:05Instead, if a woman has been raped,

00:07we are saying,

00:08Iski izzat lod gayi.

00:10But much more in India

00:11and other developing countries

00:13where there is just so much of victim shaming

00:16and the victim is thought of as having lost something irrevocably.

00:22Izzat chale gayi.

00:23It intrigues me.

00:24Whose izzat?

00:25Izzat is honour.

00:26Whose izzat?

00:28The woman lost her respectability.

00:31If there is someone who has lost his dignity,

00:34his self-worth, his self-respect,

00:37it is the perpetrator of the crime.

00:39It is the rapist.

00:40But no one says the rapist lost his honour.