DOes this really Help!!

I was watching the Promos of Rihhaee. ( I don't watch this show)

and I was thinking that showing such things, like a girl is in trouble and these four ppl go and solve her problem, doing all this, will it help improving the society.

a Society, which is not willing to change, for a such a long time. I mean acting is really easy, why don't they make a real team and show real cases, why don't they make his rihhaee team a real organizition. and help women in real world.

I heard and I saw a news a few months ago, that an NGO woman's both hands were chopped, coz she wanted to stop the child Marriages.

who is going to give her Rihhaee??
Girls who get raped everyday, unko koun rihhaee deh ga?

I am sorry, i might be overreactining, but this came to my mind while I was watching the promo of a woman with AIDS.

Yup i totally agree... there are groups out there... but the number of cases is so high that not each of these groups can give "Rihaaee" to each person. But i've heard that they do put effort and try to solve cases. Unfortunately, life isn't like a TV show where cases as complicated can get solved in a matter of 1 hr...

But i am sure that they do their best and my well wishes lies with them :)

Hi Boli,

Your frustration is valid and very true. I think such serials only help educate people on certains things and tell them where to seek help if needed or how they can help themself.

As kalpita said, there are so many cases, it is not easy for them to reach everyone and get justice. I think such serials should bring awareness in people...both kind..one who tortures and the other who go through the torture. If atleast few people can change their way of thinking, then it is good message.

I also think women should get stronger and realize and fight for themself if needed. every women going through torture, do not get help...if they can start helping themself, then they are setting rihaee on their path...

Your are not overreacting and ur frrustation is obvious. But the voilence cannot b stopped in a min. Maybe this is a small little step to stop all the corruption towards women. We cannot imagine what really happens outside OUR world. Its a good job they are showing educating us abt people in real trouble. Maybe some1 who s corrupt may c the show n understand what he might be doing.

The show helps us in that we can think better and analyze things better and broaden our mindsets. If we are not exposed to these things, we will still be having the same old thoughts and will not able to accept victims of abuse.

This show also helps us in smelling trouble else where and see if the folks need any help.

Sure, this one show will not change the way people think, but the younger generation like us need to get ourselves more positive and this show would make an impression on the younger folks and help build their morale and confidence and take up different lines of work.

Remeber Banwari devi? The Dalit village woman from Rajasthan who tried to stop a child marraige ( she was a member of aanganwadi, a social activist organisation)) was gang raped by the Village headmen and his goons because she dared to step into their territory and challenge their authority.......

Worse, the High court actually set those men free.....their ruling ? High caste men cannot possibly rape a low caste woman.....

Another very recent case. A muslim lady was raped by her father in law in Muzzaffarnagar. The shariat board ruled that as she had a physical union - forced or otherwise completely irrelevant - with her father in law, she would now be considered to be the father in law's wife and would have to consider her husband her son.......any physical reunion with her husband was now out of question....

From Asian News:

MUZAFFARNAGAR, June 30: About 200 women protested outside a court in India on Thursday against a fatwa prohibiting a rape victim from living with her husband after she was raped by her father-in-law.

"Punish the rapist, not the victim," the women shouted as the 28-year-old burqa-clad Imrana Bibi met a team from the National Commission for Women (NCW), which demanded justice for her under India's secular constitution.

"This is a question of the law of the land and the constitution is supreme. We want justice for the woman," NCW chief Girija Vyas told reporters in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh.

"Personal laws should be modified and made gender-just and human rights-friendly. No religion punishes the innocent," Subhashini Ali, a senior leader of the All India Democratic Women's Association, told reporters.

Imrana Bibi, a poor rickshawpuller's wife in the predominantly Muslim town, was raped by her father-in-law, prompting a Muslim village council to decree she had to live as the 'wife' of her father-in-law and treat her husband as her son.

As uproar mounted, South Asia's most influential Islamic theological school waded in with a fatwa saying Imrana, a mother of five, was prohibited from living with her husband under the Shariat.

But it did not endorse the village council's stand that she had to become her father-in-law's wife.

"Any Muslim who opposes our fatwa is not a true Muslim and is betraying Islam," said Mohammad Masood Madani, a scholar at the Darul Uloom Deoband.

"She had a physical relationship with her father-in-law. It does not matter whether it was consensual or forced. She cannot live with her husband."

The slightly built Imrana, who was accompanied by her husband and sister-in-law, told reporters she would follow the Shariat. Imrana's father-in-law has been arrested. – Reuters

The National Commission for women is fighting her case. How much Rihhaaee they will be able to give her is yet to be seen......

well, if there are NGO's and they are not able to reach all the victims of anything, then why on TV do they show that their every case was a success! why do they give falso hope to ppl.

as for the Minnie Di's Article.
Its really sad what happened. but it is not Shariat! there is not written anywhere to make the woman wife of the rapist. In Islam the punishment of a Rapist is death, and its not simply hanging, its stricter then that. who ever passed that law doesnot know anything about Islam, or has eatten money.

I don't think bhok hartal or anything can help, until and unless there is a proper dialogue. coz ven they can give out such laws, then they don't care, if a group of women sit in front of their office and do a strike.

God Bless these ppl. they are going bak in the dark ages. Janglee!

I read about the two cases that you mentioned Minnie and my FIL-MIL and hubby were talking about what trauma that lady must be going through... first of all how could a FIL do this to his DIL and top of it not do anything to make up for it like a 'prayaschit'. That A**ole does not even want to admit his guilt.

Like Ms BholiBhali said, that FIL should be hanged, if they so want to follow the Muslim law. After a rape, the girl is so much in a trauma, nobody seems to addressing that, but are talking about where she needs to live... how can they decide that... she is a major she will go to back to her husband.. or may not.. leave to that lady.