MeToo DURGAVATI AND AKBAR

Dear Earthlings,


I, Durgavati, watch with great interest as salacious tidbits of M.J. Akbar's harem leak out into the Delhi smog.  He was considered as one of the most liberal and secular Muslims of India.  He was the second incarnation of Akbar the Great himself.  Did his mother not teach him to respect the feminine gender? Do men disrespect women because patriarchy teaches men to exploit women?  The feminists say that the upbringing of men is faulty.


Is this the way to solve women's problems?  Do problems get solved by voyeuristic and sensationalist debates on prime time?  A fake solution does not solve problems.  Did Sajid Khan, Karim Morani, Madhur Bhandarkar, and Vikas Bahl's mothers teach them to exploit women?  Why did the likes of Saba Naqvi, Harinder Baweja, Ghazala Wahab who claim to fight for women's empowerment keep mum all these years?  If they are as strong as they pretend to be, could not they have ganged up then like they do now to bring down the offender?


Why do the likes of Shahrukh Khan, Mr. Bacchhan, Amir Khan etc still stay more or less mum about these issues?  Did they not know about this already?  The answer is not only the women but the men also fear loss of job opportunities, status, wealth, fame if they take on these wolves of the establishment.  It is not patriarchy that is to blame, but the system itself that works with one motive and that is wealth creation.


There is very little place for anything else in this system.  It is the justice system that fails both the men and the women.  It requires these fake feminists to hide its ugly reality and promote a fake model of empowerment.  Mr. M.J. Akbar was one of those fake secular liberal icons and the garv-se-kaho Hindutvavadis are finding it a bit embarassing to show him the door.  He is one of the few Muslim faces of the party.  Sushma Swaraj's silence on the issue speaks a lot about women's empowerment.


The feminists say that it does not matter if the case is decades old, then I would like to put them to the test.  Let them reopen the case of the original Akbar the Great, the great secular Muslim of Indian history.  Is he too big to fall too?  His appetite for women would have put Casanova to shame.  He was such a debauch that he is known to have killed some of his own confidantes to induct their wives into his harem.  How long will this man continue to be hailed as The Great?


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