sancho
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Even if we wouldn't talk about India, where bribes are normal, this wouldn't be something special for India, but for the situation! He is a convict of one of the most horrific cases in the recent years and awaits death penalty and if somebody comes and asks for an interview, you if not your lawyers will try to make the most out of this sitiation. How many convicts in western countries sell their stories to news papers, let alone their book rights, is that something different? Of course not, that's why I said that the ammount would actually be far too low, but that's a different issue and not related to to content of the docu, just as his interview is just one part of it and not the main part, as the Government and "some" parts of the media wants to make it.
Tell me about it, reports about India in Europe often are in relation to poverty or rape these days. But we can't shoot the messenger, but have to change the message! And that is only possible if we improve the situation in India, not by naively trying to force foreign media on what to report and what not. We have to improve the safty situation in India, not only for our own women, but for foreigners that come to Indian to visit or even work, because these people go back and tell their friends and families the reality, they will report in social media about their experience and they can create a much larger picture of what foreign people think about India. So it's on us to change things for the better and not just complain about foreigners reporting about it.
For years the west reported about India as a 3rd world country with nukes, that has changed much since the 123 pact, which gave us a more official status, but also because it was pointed out that India is a large and responsible democracy. People don't worry that much about us having nukes anymore and with the recent elections India got even some admiration for the way such huge elections were effectively done and how commited the Indian voter was.That is how we change the perception of India and we can change the problem now too, if we show that we can improve the situation.
First of all, who said that was the aim? It's a docu about a specific case, talking only about it and the persons with a relation to the case. It doesn't generalize or reflect the Indian "rape situation" as a whole.
Secondly, the simple fact that we saw not only the shocking statements of the offender and his lawyers, that makes us understand to an extend why this case happend, what those guys thought at that point (and imo how crazy humans can be), it also shows us that our youth and the protest they showed can change the society and the mindsets. The docu showed students, women voicing their outrage in a strong manner! The part where the women was interviewed, that attended the protest on her own accord, eventhough her husband wasn't in favour of it, was impressive and a message for others don't you think?
Similarly, the part where they tried to analyse the background of the offenders, to see if that had an influence on their views, which as I said earlier could lead to excuses for them, but shows that the authors of the docu viewed the case from many different angles.
Btw, a point that many people simply ignore with the bias of looking at the big BBC and the (bad) foreigners that made the docu is, that it's just published by the BBC, but made by a woman who is a rape victim herself, that took this case as an example, not as a generalization.
There is a BBC docu about the Sikh riots, which is done by a woman of Indian origin, if you compare both you will find huge difference in the way both were made, in the way both portray the stories. So the nationality, or the fact that it's a foreign media agency that shows it, what makes us feel bad, it's the content of the docu! It's not the mirror that makes us feel bad, but what we see in it and it's on us to change what we see!
