Friday, March 13, 2015

Activist shows banned BBC documentary "India's daughter" in Delhi's Ravidas Camp...

Four days after it was shown in Agra's Rup Dhanu Village, India's Daughter, a BBC documentary on the Nirbhaya gang rape, reached the slum where four of the convicts in the case used to live.

On Thursday evening, about 50 residents of Ravidas Camp in RK Puram watched it on a portable screen. With the film banned in India, people were apprehensive and two men in the audience had even covered their faces, but they all seemed touched by it and some of the women had tears in their eyes.

Ketan Dixit, an activist working with an NGO, Stop Acid Attacks, had set up a projector at the end of a lane to show the documentary. "People were scared, and some were peeping from their windows not to be caught watching it," said Dixit, an independent documentary maker.

 Women in the audience said speedy justice is necessary for the camp to shake off the stigma. "When they are accepting they did it, hang them. We will also be at peace as the media glare that we've been under since December 2012 will end," said Phoolmati, a resident. Full story...

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