India’s Daughter - And Bipartisanship

As the media circus goes on primarily in India and Britain over the documentary film “ India’s daughter” made by a British filmmaker, there are many opinions on how many people feel the movie should be banned vs how many people think otherwise. 

Other opinion pieces address the issue over laws that were broken in India to interview a charged criminal at length, the issue of mentality of men in India, the issue of safety of women in India. Is India a safe place and so many other similar articles are strewn all over the internet. 

What strikes me most is BBC’s holier that thou attitude. While it has left no stone unturned in writing numerous articles about the safety of women in India, the mentality of the Indian men, freedom of speech and banning the movie tantamounts to curtailing freedom of speech. I am yet to see a single article on Raymond Varley. This dirty old man has raped children 100s of children in the orphanages of India for over 20 years, instead of languishing in an Indian prison, he is enjoying the protection of the British government.

The Indian government has been pleading for his extradition with their British counterparts and they refuse to let him go. I am yet to see one article on this abominable creature. Where is the outcry for justice? Kudos to a lady named Vivien BAPTISTE who started an on-line petition to extradite Mr. Raymond Varley to India for justice, but guess how many signatures she has managed to garner in seven months? A mere 200. There are many dangerous Pedophiles like him who visit Indian orphanages, abuse children and then go back and hide in Britain, France and other countries. Why is that not an issue?

As to whether the movie should be banned in India? I think it has managed to garner more publicity by having become a subject of controversy, and it is available on Youtube anyway, so what purpose is the ban serving? I don’t know. 

However, considering the filmmaker has broken Indian law in the process of getting information out of the criminal, wouldn’t it only be fair to allow an Indian journalist access to similar criminals in Britain, including our infamous Raymond Varley and his ilk, who should be dragged to India for justice, despite being “protected” by the British government, so that  justice can be served and everyone can understand the mindset of such pedophiles, which can be documented in a movie titled "Britain’s Monsters." Even otherwise, having a bipartisan agreement between two countries to dig up dirt on each other would only help allow the process of a massive clean up. 

There is no doubt that there needs to be a shift in the attitude of men and society as whole, let us do it together globally after all the Internet has made the world a smaller place. If only justice across countries worked that way.  Wouldn't the world be a better place? Could we use bipartisan treaties to work that way… Right? Two wrongs do not make a right but trying to fix two wrongs at the same time.... Wouldn't that help clean the world up a little faster?