THIS

IS WHERE PEOPLE THROW DYE ON ONE

ANOTHER.

IT LOOKS LIKE A LOT OF FUN.

IT IS MEANT TO CELEBRATE

SPRING, BUT THERE IS A DARK SIDE OF THESE CELEBRATIONS THAT

DOESN'T GET ATTENTION.

THE UNIVERSITY OF DELHI SENT OUT

NOTICES TO ITS TWO FEMALE

DORMITORIES AND LET THEM KNOW THAT THEIR DORMS WOULD BE ON

LOCKDOWN DURING THE CELEBRATIONS

BECAUSE OF HARASSMENT FEARS.

A FEW STUDENTS

SHARED THEIR

PERCEPTION OF WHAT TAKES PLACE DURING THESE EVENTS.

PEOPLE ARE

WORRIED ABOUT THESE YOUNG WOMEN GOING OUT THERE AND CELEBRATING.

THEY ARE WORRIED SOMEONE MIGHT GET SEXUALLY ASSAULTED OR

HARASSED.

THE UNIVERSITY TOOK ACTION AND DECIDED TO PUT THESE

DORMS ON LOCKDOWN.

THE QUESTION

IS IS THIS REALLY THE RIGHT WAY TO GO ABOUT THINGS.

A KIND OF

PENALIZES THE WOMEN AS OPPOSED TO REALLY FOCUSING ON THE ISSUE

AT HAND WHICH IS HOW GUYS FEEL

ENTITLED TO JUST HARASS AND SEXUALLY ASSAULT WOMEN LIKE

THIS.

>> IN THE CASE OF SHOULD THEY BE ALLOWED TO JUST GRAB PEOPLE, OF

COURSE NOT.

WHAT IS THIS THE PURGE?

WE'RE GOING TO SUSPEND

LAWS FOR 24 HOURS?

BEFORE EVERY ñ LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE QUOTE

ABOUT IT.

" THE IDEA OF CONSENT DOES NOT EXIST DURING HOLI."

IT

SHOULD EXIST AT ALL TIMES.

CAN MEN COME OUT AND RAPE OTHER MEN?

>>IT'S CRAZY HOW THIS PROBLEM DOESN'T SEEM TO GET ANY BETTER.

WHEN IT IS INGRAINED, OR SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN IGNORED

BY AUTHORITIES AND POLITICIANS FOR SO LONG IT'S KIND OF HARD TO

CHANGE THINGS.

CHANGE TAKES

TIME.

SEVERAL YEARS AGO THERE WAS A STUDENT IN HER 20S WHO

WENT OUT TO A MOVIE WITH A MALE

FRIEND.

THEY GOT OUT LATE, SHE GETS ONTO A BUS AND JUST WANTS

TO GO HOME.

THEN SHE GETS GANG RAPED AND MURDERED BY A GROUP OF

GUYS ON THAT BUS.

THAT SPARKED AN INTERNATIONAL DEBATE ABOUT

WHAT IS GOING ON IN INDIA AND WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO COMBAT

THE ISSUE OF RAPE.

I FEEL THE PROBLEM DOESN'T SEEM TO BE

GETTING ANY BETTER.

YOU SEE WOMEN GETTING BLAMED FOR IT.

WOMEN GETTING LOCKED DOWN BECAUSE OF THE FEAR.

I FEEL LIKE

INDIA HAS A LONG WAY TO GO.

I KNOW IT IS NOT COOL TO

POLITICIZE THIS, BUT I HAVE TO.

THOSE SEXUAL ASSAULTS TOOK PLACE

IN COLOGNE, AND IT WAS HORRIFIC.

CONSERVATIVES ESPECIALLY LOVED

EXPLOITING THAT STORY.

WHAT ABOUT THE WOMEN.

HOW OFTEN DO

YOU HEAR CONSERVATIVE NEWS OUTLETS COVERING WHAT IS GOING

ON IN INDIA RIGHT NOW?

THEY DON'T BECAUSE THERE IS NO

POLITICAL INCENTIVE TO DO SO.

THERE IS NO ONE THEY WANT TO DEMONIZE LIKE THEY WANT TO

DEMONIZE MUSLIMS.

>> IF WE WERE CRIMINALIZING HINDUS

THEY WOULD TALK ABOUT IT.

THIS HAPPENS IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT CULTURES IN DIFFERENT

WAYS.

THERE IS A RIGHT WAY TO DO IT, AND A WRONG WAY.

IT HAS TO

DO WITH SIMPLE HUMAN RESPECT FOR

ONE ANOTHER.

IT IS A LITTLE SIMILAR TO MARDI GRAS.

THE BIG

DIFFERENCE IN MARDI GRAS IS YES, THEY SEXUALIZE WOMEN.

BUT THERE

IS CONSENT.

CONSENT MATTERS A LOT BECAUSE YOU CAN'T IGNORE

CERTAIN PEOPLE AS NONHUMAN.

WHY CAN'T WOMEN SAY WE ARE HAVING

FUN NOW WE CAN JUST RUN OVER GUYS.

SO MANY DIFFERENT CULTURES

DO THIS.

THEY GIVE ONE YEAR TO THEIR KIDS RIGHT BEFORE THEY

BECOME ADULTS TO DO WHAT THEY

WANT.

THEY GO NUTS.

RELIGIOUS CULTURES GET PENT-UP, AND THEN

THEY HAVE TO RELEASE.

>> THAT IS SUCH A GOOD WAY OF DESCRIBING IT.

IF SOMEONE WERE

TO TELL ME TO GO DO WHATEVER I WANT, NO RULES, I'M NOT GOING TO

BE SHOOTING HEROIN AND GOING

CRAZY.

IT IS BECAUSE I'M NOT RELIGIOUS.

I'M A GOOD PERSON, I

BELIEVE IN MORALS.

BUT MY MORALS DON'T HURT OTHER PEOPLE.

AND

JUST BE KIND.

UNLESS SOMEONE MAKES YOU MAD BY VOTING FOR THE WRONG PERSON

AND THEN YOU CALL THEM NAMES.

>> LET'S JUST ALSO TALK ABOUT THE SECOND COMPONENT WHICH IS

LOCKING WOMEN UP.

INDIA'S MINISTER FOR WOMEN GAVE THIS

QUOTE WHICH I THOUGHT AT FIRST

SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE GUYS WHICH MAKES IT WORSE.

SHE SAYS,

"WHEN YOU ARE 16 OR 17 YOU ARE HORMONALLY VERY CHALLENGED.

SO

TO PROTECT YOU AGAINST YOUR OWN

HORMONAL OUTBURSTS PERHAPS A BOUNDARY

IS DRAWN."

SO IT'S

THEIR FAULT, HENCE WE HAVE TO DRAW A BOUNDARY.

SHE IS THE

MINISTER OF WOMEN!

IT'S CRAZY TALK.

HOLI SOUND SUPER FUN IF

YOU TAKE THE NONCONSENT OUT.

THEY DRINK A MILKY CANNABIS

BASED CONCOCTION.

NOW WE ARE

HAVING FUN.

JUST BRING CONSENTS BACK AND WE CAN ALL HAVE FUN TOGETHER.