{"id":277,"date":"2015-03-06T06:55:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T06:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/06\/no-jyoti-singh-is-not-indias-daughter-quartz\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:25:41","slug":"no-jyoti-singh-is-not-indias-daughter-quartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2015\/03\/06\/no-jyoti-singh-is-not-indias-daughter-quartz\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Jyoti Singh is not India\u2019s daughter – Quartz"},"content":{"rendered":"
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… how\u00a0can India claim her making, when she was\u00a0a dreamer\u2014dare we say it\u2014despite India, not because of it? What did India give\u00a0Jyoti Singh? Not a society that respected her. Not an education for which her family didn\u2019t have to sacrifice every little thing. Not even a safe bus to take home.<\/p>\n

The rapists\u2014Mukesh Singh who recounts his crime and talks to\u00a0the camera without showing the slightest regret (nor a full understanding of the inconceivable gravity of his actions)\u00a0and his criminal companions\u2014aren\u2019t they, perhaps,\u00a0India\u2019s real sons?\u00a0\u201cWhat kind of human beings are these?\u201d asks former chief of justice Leila Seth\u00a0in the film. They are, let\u2019s repeat it, India\u2019s sons.\u00a0The product of poor education, of\u00a0centuries of patriarchy, and of violence,\u00a0poverty and impunity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No, Jyoti Singh is not India\u2019s daughter – Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… how\u00a0can India claim her making, when she was\u00a0a dreamer\u2014dare we say it\u2014despite India, not because of it? What did India give\u00a0Jyoti Singh? Not a society that respected her. 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