00:00Ghar ki izzat. How does one break those shackles of thinking that women hold all the...
00:05By simply asking, how does one define the term honour?
00:09If honour refers to my ability to keep my women subdued in the name of safety,
00:17then two hoots to such honour. And that's what has happened.
00:21A person is honourable, a father is honourable, a family is honourable.
00:24If it can keep its women disciplined in order, marry them off as per the prescribed notions,
00:32and if anything goes astray, if a woman decides on her own to deviate, then it is dishonour.
00:41And since it is dishonour, the answer can be honour killing. That's what we witness.
00:46And the real purpose of culture is to keep discarding such notions and cleansing itself from within.
00:56But instead, culture often becomes rigid and chooses to retain all the rubbish of the past.
01:02The concept of honour, also the concept of shame.
01:06Yeah, yeah.
01:07These are two very related notions.
01:09When somebody says you are shameless, what does the word shame mean in the first place?
01:15Yes, yeah.
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