white, non-white, bah...cant we live in peace? i dont see the difference, we're all human, so we must have been related at one point or another.
i will say, if i was married, i would not want my wife to burn. i say this in no way as insulting, but to me it feels selfish on the male's part to expect his mate to burn alongside his corpse.
the original Sati myth was quite moving as an /allegory/ for how much She defended the honor of Her husband Shiva.
'Raja Rammohan Roy' the bengali reformist was hero behind abolishing this practise. How did he overturn a centuries old practise simply? Being educated who read Hindus holy texts like Vedas, Uphanishads. He challenged preists to show HIM ONE INSTANCE WHERE PRACTISE WAS MENTIONED IN HOLY TEXTS, they failed, Just FYI Kunti the mother of Pandavas (the protagonists of Mahabharata) was a window who never practised it. So this was cult that existed in India and not mentioned in any hindu holy texts
After seeing all this ? Do you still say Islam is barbarik ? Islam strictly condemns all this. See what hindism does ? Why then western media blames Islam ? Think!!!
@MrAliAmerican Ali, Islam may not have the practice of sati and 1400 years ago it was certainly progressive but now thanks to people following Mullah and not Allah, its not anymore. Where does the philosophy of Al-Qaeda come from? Think!!
@TheosAthanatos Absolutely not ! Anglos surely helped built the country but they also have their share of evil doing. We can't generalize this to all the Anglos.
done either voluntarily or by use of force and coercion,,a woman would have immolated herself on her husband’s funeral pyre.This practice is rare and has been outlawed in India since 18th century... but there are documents that this has been misinterpreted that the wife chooses to do so as she believes that her husband is her God and way of showing faithfulness to husband... but in any ways.. this discriminates women..
@halkiphulkiben oh really being hindu u felt sick then yu are the biggest """murrfucker"""and ofcause the customs are true ............wheather yu think its right or wrong these are gods instructions to be followed......and yes if a woman likes to be sati then only she should ...but if she is forced to do so thats wrong......but the customs are always true and that is what they are meant for.............
OK, this is completely bias and misinterpreted. I as a British-Indian may have never experienced Indian life full on but I know that this is wrong. Firstly, a Sati is not someone who is forced into being cremated along with her husband, she chooses to do so as she believes that her husband is her God and if he is no more than neither should she, similar to Romeo & Juliet in that neither Romeo or Juliet were forced to die, they chose too. I could go on but Youtube only allows this much to fit in.
@Thetrollmaster2000 Yeah agreed! Let's forget about the centuries of ineptitude that White-Anglos have displayed and the rape of the world they've instigated and just kill the Indians. Fusho.
u idot why should one billion people die out because u said so?
feeling insecure are we cos ur a dying breed. thanks fuck cos im guessing ur probs white. we can have less mass murders paedos and holocaust killers. die quicklyu
@halkiphulkiben oh really being hindu u felt sick then yu are the biggest """murrfucker"""and ofcause the customs are true ............wheather yu think its right or wrong these are gods instructions to be followed......and yes if a woman likes to be sati then only she should ...but if she is forced to do so thats wrong......but the customs are always true and that is what they are meant for.............
@halkiphulkiben@halkiphulkiben oh really being hindu u felt sick then yu are the biggest """murrfucker"""and ofcause the customs are true ............wheather yu think its right or wrong these are gods instructions to be followed......and yes if a woman likes to be sati then only she should ...but if she is forced to do so thats wrong......but the customs are always true and that is what they are meant for.............
Sati was dates back to the era of Chittorgarh when queen padmini order that every women should die with honor kept than falling prey to the enemies when their fort fell to the enemies..
Queen padmini and other females jumped into fire
This happened mostly among the rajputana and it was only done when a woman had no other protector than Husband brothers and father...
Sati was dates back to the era of Chittorgarh when queen padmini order that every women should die with honor kept than falling prey to the enemies when their fort fell to the enemies..
Queen padmini and other females jumped into fire
This happened mostly among the rajputana and it was only done when a woman had no other protector than Husband brothers and father...
yes this is an Indian tradition that illustrates discrimination for women..and there is recently report that this tradition still practicing by few...
Sati is not a Hindu tradition first of all, there is zero proof of where it originated, the guess is a tradition through certain lineage. Second, a pativrata (woman who has made the vow to serve and help better he husband) makes a vow to join her husband in the afterlife. A sati in sanskrit/hindi means a woman of virtue and goodness - and should not be viewed as a crazed suicide act
@182popeye I didn't deny it.. I'm just saying there is no material proof of where it exactly originated, and that the british looked at various documents, had them translated, and came up with their own definition of sati which in actual fact is not what it was suppose to represent. Infact, after they made a definition for it, it grew in popularity.
@silverfly420 sati is a old tradition of burning widows so they go with their dead husbands and also so they dont cheat and marry again after his death. this was practised in the sub-continent by hindus, not sikhs or muslims or bhuddas but hindus so its obviously a hindu tradion. the mughal emperors then put a bann to this ritual so some hindus stopped but other orthodoxed hindus carried it on.
@182popeye I would love to see some anthropological proof of your claims for as far as I have been exposed to, the biritsh were the first to shed such negative light on a foreign 'tradition'.
@silverfly420 look theres no point arguing. that is what i had studied in history ages ago. ive even been to india in 'barailee' ages ago and there i was also told this by my hindu neighbours. but as i have no proof lets not carry on arguing.
@182popeye I'm not trying to argue, just we have been studying it in a religion class at university and so, I feel strongly about the point I was trying to make.
Sati is a very Vedic Idea. It did not start during muslims invasion and all. Alexanders greeks recorded hindu women forced into funeral pyre. They recorded it as a reason to stop wifes from poisoning the husband. Rig Veda-Book 10-Hymn 18 (6-8) has reasons attesting Sati. even scholors like Madhavachrya were infavor of it.
@silverfly420 hmmm sound good... so history must be modified specially on what was written on some references used by most asian countries here in the Philippines it was seen and interpreted in a negative way...and its nice to hear such words from u this will help us and the rest of the world to change what they believe about sati tradition.thank you
Strange how the commentary is morphing to "defending" (or at least justifying, or rationalizing) one's religion. I don't see any religious undertones in the video. It's a work of art that captures a tradition that existED in India - decades ago.
Because sikh elders feared for their young girls they ordered a huge so called holy suicide in order so no sikh girl gets humiliated and raped by the muslim mobs..
Muslims mostly demanded sikh womens in order to spare the childrens and elders of sikhs who were stuck in areas where muslims were majority..
Sati pratha has got its wrong image no widow is burned alive just because her husband dies..As a Buddhist myself we have lived among Hindus for generations where there was Hindus who were devouted to their faith..
None of them commited such acts its only propoganda..
This act of sati is commited when a woman looses her defence and protector and in order to save its honor they take their own life..
In persia many muslim womens commited same act when mongols invaded persia..
The code of sati descended from the Rani padmini of chittor..When the enemy armies were battering into chittor after its defence was broken..Rani padmini ordered every young girl to commit suicide with their honor in its hand..
It was then she fired up a huge pyre where she and all of young girls jumped in it rather than falling prey to the enemy armies..
well acutally sati has roots in religion which become culture n tradition. Legend has it that after being rescued by her husband Ram, Sita in an attempt to prove that she was faithful to him while under hostage of ravana, jumped into a fire. Because she was pure and chaste, she was spared from the flames by ram. Thus the tradition of sati began. It was outlawed by the british and the last case was in the 70's I think in rural rajasthan.
It is nothing about culture or tradition. Women suicide after husband dies because of economic hurdles. I am an Indian and lived in india and usa. In my entire life I haven't seen one sati incident. The media take this for commercial purpose.
Well, it was neither culture or tradition. It was a financial burden to her after husband passes. Every culture or tradition had a practical meaning then latter the meaning were ignored and the practice were following blindly. This video gives an impression as if Sati is prevolent in todays india.
Nowhere does this video say "HELLO WORLD, THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN 2009." Take at face value that I have created what is called a moodscape of one particular set of circumstances. For you to say that Sati is neither cultural nor tradition in any way, shape, or form is absolutely ignorant. It's one thing for you to say that in your perception, this film gives off an undertone or insinuation you may not agree with. That's fine. It's another thing for you to be a dumbass.
Vi que o título do vídeo é referente a uma prática hindu, que para nós, é algo intolerante, um crime contra a mulher, e que as Nações Unidas deveria se preocupar em acabar com a mesma, mesmo que tivesse que colocar o exército nas ruas da India. Pois as leis não fazem com que as pessoas se conscientizem. E a prática continuará se alguém não fizer alguma coisa. Denunciar ao mundo será o melhor feito. Podem contar conosco.
Brilliant video highlighting a very cruel practice which we are in denial of, just like the caste system. Everything is not okay, it is very wrong and we must challenge that which is wrong.
From what I know, it all started during the Muslim invasion, when Hindu women chose to die with their slain husbands rather than serve as cocubines in Muslim whore houses, to keep their honour. Force was also used in some cases. However I find it hard to believe that they still exist today, and in what numbers ?
Force was actually the primary motivation, bot the aberration.
For the most part it doesn't exist today, because it was banned in 1829 and 1956, respectively. It occurs only in VERY rare cases where tradition prevails before all else. For example, there were reported cases from the 1980s.
It didn't exactly start with the Muslim invasion. (It was prevalent among Egyptians/Greeks prior to India) so when Indians, primarily Hindus, adopted it, it wasn't to avoid Muslim torture.
Precisely why I work for a non-profit organization which orients itself on current issues. If you've read the description on this video, I'm not some ridiculous feminist trying to raise awareness about an activity which no one can do anything about- it's simply an art film exploring 3 points of view in Rashomon style. I'm a political activist; I think I know how to manage my time on pertinent issues, thank you.
Sorry, I did not watch the complete video last time. I agree with the content. Hindus in urban areas are much more open minded now, but in some parts of the remote areas they are still orthodox and feel female children are a burden. I understand this video is creating awareness, but wouldn't it be better if you describe the activity and its scope in the description ? Some potential viewers are not very informed and might come up with wrong assumptions.
Besides, this is the second most favorite method of criticizing Hindus, after the Caste system. Some people are delibrately looking for this. I'm suprised they aren't here yet. The only way forward is open mindedness that is comming with development. I'm not criticizing your work, I appreciate it. While some parts of India are hidden in the dark, there is another side, which is the inverse. With excess freedom some women fall in the wrong path and there's no turing back.
It's shameful how ignorant people can be, but when people provoke me or ask me questions, I do indeed try my best to educate them.
And believe me, I am aware of the progress that has been made in urbanized India. But as a journalist, which is how I often see myself, it's not my duty to be comprehensive; that is a reporter's job. Just because of WW2, and the shame that German's may feel regarding the past, should holocaust films not be made?
An interesting concept.Sati exists today in many ways.A human needn't be burnt sitting on pyre to call it SATI.One burns other alive in more than one way,especially emotionally,in the name of love.They are cruel enough to walk on live corpses(living without life).Unlike the extinct SATI,these games'll continue until one gives up ego and begins retrospection.Though we modified our genes,we can't deny our roots even today.We perform SATI the modern way & rationalize it too.WE'VE THE SIGNATURE.
white, non-white, bah...cant we live in peace? i dont see the difference, we're all human, so we must have been related at one point or another.
i will say, if i was married, i would not want my wife to burn. i say this in no way as insulting, but to me it feels selfish on the male's part to expect his mate to burn alongside his corpse.
the original Sati myth was quite moving as an /allegory/ for how much She defended the honor of Her husband Shiva.
hashfromplan9 3 months ago
'Raja Rammohan Roy' the bengali reformist was hero behind abolishing this practise. How did he overturn a centuries old practise simply? Being educated who read Hindus holy texts like Vedas, Uphanishads. He challenged preists to show HIM ONE INSTANCE WHERE PRACTISE WAS MENTIONED IN HOLY TEXTS, they failed, Just FYI Kunti the mother of Pandavas (the protagonists of Mahabharata) was a window who never practised it. So this was cult that existed in India and not mentioned in any hindu holy texts
wibas2008 5 months ago
After seeing all this ? Do you still say Islam is barbarik ? Islam strictly condemns all this. See what hindism does ? Why then western media blames Islam ? Think!!!
MrAliAmerican 6 months ago
@MrAliAmerican what was osama bin laden doing in pak?
12325sunny 5 months ago
@12325sunny How do you know he was in Pakistan ? And how do you he even exists ? Are you with him!!! I bet he was in India.
MrAliAmerican 5 months ago
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@12325sunny How do you know he was in Pakistan ? And how do you he even exists ? Are you with him!!! I bet he was in India.
MrAliAmerican 5 months ago
@MrAliAmerican Ali, Islam may not have the practice of sati and 1400 years ago it was certainly progressive but now thanks to people following Mullah and not Allah, its not anymore. Where does the philosophy of Al-Qaeda come from? Think!!
PTIKhan 2 months ago
@TheosAthanatos Absolutely not ! Anglos surely helped built the country but they also have their share of evil doing. We can't generalize this to all the Anglos.
pitineo 7 months ago
yes, Women are no longer burned down nowadays. They just get married to another man or continue to live without a husband.
pitineo 7 months ago
done either voluntarily or by use of force and coercion,,a woman would have immolated herself on her husband’s funeral pyre.This practice is rare and has been outlawed in India since 18th century... but there are documents that this has been misinterpreted that the wife chooses to do so as she believes that her husband is her God and way of showing faithfulness to husband... but in any ways.. this discriminates women..
friendzhipOnline 1 year ago
yeah, bitch! Stop being selfish so we can burn your ass and take the marital assets
lutherheggs 1 year ago
It's sad how some people can treat fellow humans. I just watched Baabul, hopefully more will watch and learn from it.
mosteve30 1 year ago
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@halkiphulkiben oh really being hindu u felt sick then yu are the biggest """murrfucker"""and ofcause the customs are true ............wheather yu think its right or wrong these are gods instructions to be followed......and yes if a woman likes to be sati then only she should ...but if she is forced to do so thats wrong......but the customs are always true and that is what they are meant for.............
mahajanrahat1 1 year ago
OK, this is completely bias and misinterpreted. I as a British-Indian may have never experienced Indian life full on but I know that this is wrong. Firstly, a Sati is not someone who is forced into being cremated along with her husband, she chooses to do so as she believes that her husband is her God and if he is no more than neither should she, similar to Romeo & Juliet in that neither Romeo or Juliet were forced to die, they chose too. I could go on but Youtube only allows this much to fit in.
Sirusholuvyou 1 year ago
Well...there goes my local gas station managers.
DhDo74 1 year ago
hehe my father told me when he was little living in Malaysia, these indians burn 3 living wifes ages 20-30 of a husband thats 78 y.o
:p they were screaming in pain :3
i think indians should just die out
Thetrollmaster2000 1 year ago
@Thetrollmaster2000 Yeah agreed! Let's forget about the centuries of ineptitude that White-Anglos have displayed and the rape of the world they've instigated and just kill the Indians. Fusho.
GunitaSingh 1 year ago 2
@GunitaSingh yeah, now stfu and go to the kitchen.
Thetrollmaster2000 1 year ago
@GunitaSingh It isn't for our generation to judge that.. or do you want relligion wars back?
appreciate what you where given. Love and light to you ' that white anglo --'
TQmx3beatz 5 months ago
@Thetrollmaster2000 You do understand by having your name as trollmaster, you're not a troll at all. Fail. Next time dont try as hard.
shibbiness 1 year ago
@shibbiness whatever makes you sleep at night sand monkey
Thetrollmaster2000 1 year ago
@Thetrollmaster2000
u idot why should one billion people die out because u said so?
feeling insecure are we cos ur a dying breed. thanks fuck cos im guessing ur probs white. we can have less mass murders paedos and holocaust killers. die quicklyu
skylazar 3 months ago
this is what i hate i about being a hindu.. i know this is banned. but that this happened makes me sick.
halkiphulkiben 1 year ago
@halkiphulkiben oh really being hindu u felt sick then yu are the biggest """murrfucker"""and ofcause the customs are true ............wheather yu think its right or wrong these are gods instructions to be followed......and yes if a woman likes to be sati then only she should ...but if she is forced to do so thats wrong......but the customs are always true and that is what they are meant for.............
mahajanrahat1 1 year ago
@halkiphulkiben @halkiphulkiben oh really being hindu u felt sick then yu are the biggest """murrfucker"""and ofcause the customs are true ............wheather yu think its right or wrong these are gods instructions to be followed......and yes if a woman likes to be sati then only she should ...but if she is forced to do so thats wrong......but the customs are always true and that is what they are meant for.............
mahajanrahat1 1 year ago
A RELIGION OF PEACE
PEOPLE ARE CLASSED AS UNTOUCHABLES FROM BIRTH-VERY EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES THERE
AND AS FOR TILL DEATH DO US PART - NO WAY BITCH YOU A HINDU YOUR GOING WITH THE OLD MAN
PATROL IS GOING CHEAP
nice0071 1 year ago
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Sati was dates back to the era of Chittorgarh when queen padmini order that every women should die with honor kept than falling prey to the enemies when their fort fell to the enemies..
Queen padmini and other females jumped into fire
This happened mostly among the rajputana and it was only done when a woman had no other protector than Husband brothers and father...
GrandmasterTigerfist 1 year ago
Sati was dates back to the era of Chittorgarh when queen padmini order that every women should die with honor kept than falling prey to the enemies when their fort fell to the enemies..
Queen padmini and other females jumped into fire
This happened mostly among the rajputana and it was only done when a woman had no other protector than Husband brothers and father...
GrandmasterTigerfist 1 year ago
yes this is an Indian tradition that illustrates discrimination for women..and there is recently report that this tradition still practicing by few...
imolwayzbeme 1 year ago
Sati is not a Hindu tradition first of all, there is zero proof of where it originated, the guess is a tradition through certain lineage. Second, a pativrata (woman who has made the vow to serve and help better he husband) makes a vow to join her husband in the afterlife. A sati in sanskrit/hindi means a woman of virtue and goodness - and should not be viewed as a crazed suicide act
silverfly420 2 years ago
actually it is a tradion of the early hindus so dont deny it.
182popeye 1 year ago
@182popeye I didn't deny it.. I'm just saying there is no material proof of where it exactly originated, and that the british looked at various documents, had them translated, and came up with their own definition of sati which in actual fact is not what it was suppose to represent. Infact, after they made a definition for it, it grew in popularity.
silverfly420 1 year ago
@silverfly420 sati is a old tradition of burning widows so they go with their dead husbands and also so they dont cheat and marry again after his death. this was practised in the sub-continent by hindus, not sikhs or muslims or bhuddas but hindus so its obviously a hindu tradion. the mughal emperors then put a bann to this ritual so some hindus stopped but other orthodoxed hindus carried it on.
182popeye 1 year ago
@182popeye I would love to see some anthropological proof of your claims for as far as I have been exposed to, the biritsh were the first to shed such negative light on a foreign 'tradition'.
silverfly420 1 year ago
@silverfly420 look theres no point arguing. that is what i had studied in history ages ago. ive even been to india in 'barailee' ages ago and there i was also told this by my hindu neighbours. but as i have no proof lets not carry on arguing.
182popeye 1 year ago
@182popeye I'm not trying to argue, just we have been studying it in a religion class at university and so, I feel strongly about the point I was trying to make.
silverfly420 1 year ago
Sati is a very Vedic Idea. It did not start during muslims invasion and all. Alexanders greeks recorded hindu women forced into funeral pyre. They recorded it as a reason to stop wifes from poisoning the husband. Rig Veda-Book 10-Hymn 18 (6-8) has reasons attesting Sati. even scholors like Madhavachrya were infavor of it.
hynixx 1 year ago
@silverfly420 hmmm sound good... so history must be modified specially on what was written on some references used by most asian countries here in the Philippines it was seen and interpreted in a negative way...and its nice to hear such words from u this will help us and the rest of the world to change what they believe about sati tradition.thank you
imolwayzbeme 1 year ago
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porto6210 2 years ago
Strange how the commentary is morphing to "defending" (or at least justifying, or rationalizing) one's religion. I don't see any religious undertones in the video. It's a work of art that captures a tradition that existED in India - decades ago.
ajitsingh1963 2 years ago 4
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GunitaSingh 2 years ago
@GunitaSingh You should also mention that Guru Nanak spoke against the practice of Sati. Nice video. I like the camera work.
PTIKhan 2 months ago
@ajitsingh1963 It's from their point of view. Obviously they do think it's justified.
gezkah 1 year ago
@ajitsingh1963 It still does
Ploupiploupp 1 year ago
This is the same reason with the sati but the britishers and muslims mainly made a negative scene and meaning out of it..
That in Hinduism every widow is to be burned alive with her husband..
This is all false claims
As a Buddhist we knows Hindus best and have lived with Hindus in over 2000 years and we have equal history..
Sati womens had their reasons to commit these acts..
GrandmasterTigerfist 2 years ago
yOU SHOULD GO AND READ 498A IPC
IndiaCobra 2 years ago
It may be but the reasons were similar..
Because sikh elders feared for their young girls they ordered a huge so called holy suicide in order so no sikh girl gets humiliated and raped by the muslim mobs..
Muslims mostly demanded sikh womens in order to spare the childrens and elders of sikhs who were stuck in areas where muslims were majority..
GrandmasterTigerfist 2 years ago
Its a shame that Indians are unaware of all this especially Hindus...
In samurai it was also that womens commited suicide similar to sati..
Also muslim womens did it
So did sikh womens in 1947
Sati is totally missunderstood..
GrandmasterTigerfist 2 years ago
Sati pratha has got its wrong image no widow is burned alive just because her husband dies..As a Buddhist myself we have lived among Hindus for generations where there was Hindus who were devouted to their faith..
None of them commited such acts its only propoganda..
This act of sati is commited when a woman looses her defence and protector and in order to save its honor they take their own life..
In persia many muslim womens commited same act when mongols invaded persia..
GrandmasterTigerfist 2 years ago
The code of sati descended from the Rani padmini of chittor..When the enemy armies were battering into chittor after its defence was broken..Rani padmini ordered every young girl to commit suicide with their honor in its hand..
It was then she fired up a huge pyre where she and all of young girls jumped in it rather than falling prey to the enemy armies..
This code symbolizes death before dishonor..
GrandmasterTigerfist 2 years ago
well acutally sati has roots in religion which become culture n tradition. Legend has it that after being rescued by her husband Ram, Sita in an attempt to prove that she was faithful to him while under hostage of ravana, jumped into a fire. Because she was pure and chaste, she was spared from the flames by ram. Thus the tradition of sati began. It was outlawed by the british and the last case was in the 70's I think in rural rajasthan.
MrFatbibi 2 years ago
It is nothing about culture or tradition. Women suicide after husband dies because of economic hurdles. I am an Indian and lived in india and usa. In my entire life I haven't seen one sati incident. The media take this for commercial purpose.
ur1234562001 2 years ago
It is culture and tradition, and DUH you haven't seen a Sati incident because this is an old practice, pretty much extinct since the late 1800s.
GunitaSingh 2 years ago
Well, it was neither culture or tradition. It was a financial burden to her after husband passes. Every culture or tradition had a practical meaning then latter the meaning were ignored and the practice were following blindly. This video gives an impression as if Sati is prevolent in todays india.
ur1234562001 2 years ago
Nowhere does this video say "HELLO WORLD, THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN 2009." Take at face value that I have created what is called a moodscape of one particular set of circumstances. For you to say that Sati is neither cultural nor tradition in any way, shape, or form is absolutely ignorant. It's one thing for you to say that in your perception, this film gives off an undertone or insinuation you may not agree with. That's fine. It's another thing for you to be a dumbass.
GunitaSingh 2 years ago
@ur1234562001 Apparently in some parts of india it does.
gezkah 1 year ago
Vi que o título do vídeo é referente a uma prática hindu, que para nós, é algo intolerante, um crime contra a mulher, e que as Nações Unidas deveria se preocupar em acabar com a mesma, mesmo que tivesse que colocar o exército nas ruas da India. Pois as leis não fazem com que as pessoas se conscientizem. E a prática continuará se alguém não fizer alguma coisa. Denunciar ao mundo será o melhor feito. Podem contar conosco.
araujolima1 2 years ago
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porto6210 2 years ago
Brilliant video highlighting a very cruel practice which we are in denial of, just like the caste system. Everything is not okay, it is very wrong and we must challenge that which is wrong.
Northerncheeks 2 years ago
From what I know, it all started during the Muslim invasion, when Hindu women chose to die with their slain husbands rather than serve as cocubines in Muslim whore houses, to keep their honour. Force was also used in some cases. However I find it hard to believe that they still exist today, and in what numbers ?
studboy66 2 years ago
Force was actually the primary motivation, bot the aberration.
For the most part it doesn't exist today, because it was banned in 1829 and 1956, respectively. It occurs only in VERY rare cases where tradition prevails before all else. For example, there were reported cases from the 1980s.
It didn't exactly start with the Muslim invasion. (It was prevalent among Egyptians/Greeks prior to India) so when Indians, primarily Hindus, adopted it, it wasn't to avoid Muslim torture.
GunitaSingh 2 years ago
I suppose there are bigger issues that deserve your attention than a social crime that is virtually outdated and almost extinct.
studboy66 2 years ago
Precisely why I work for a non-profit organization which orients itself on current issues. If you've read the description on this video, I'm not some ridiculous feminist trying to raise awareness about an activity which no one can do anything about- it's simply an art film exploring 3 points of view in Rashomon style. I'm a political activist; I think I know how to manage my time on pertinent issues, thank you.
GunitaSingh 2 years ago
Sorry, I did not watch the complete video last time. I agree with the content. Hindus in urban areas are much more open minded now, but in some parts of the remote areas they are still orthodox and feel female children are a burden. I understand this video is creating awareness, but wouldn't it be better if you describe the activity and its scope in the description ? Some potential viewers are not very informed and might come up with wrong assumptions.
studboy66 2 years ago
Besides, this is the second most favorite method of criticizing Hindus, after the Caste system. Some people are delibrately looking for this. I'm suprised they aren't here yet. The only way forward is open mindedness that is comming with development. I'm not criticizing your work, I appreciate it. While some parts of India are hidden in the dark, there is another side, which is the inverse. With excess freedom some women fall in the wrong path and there's no turing back.
studboy66 2 years ago
It's shameful how ignorant people can be, but when people provoke me or ask me questions, I do indeed try my best to educate them.
And believe me, I am aware of the progress that has been made in urbanized India. But as a journalist, which is how I often see myself, it's not my duty to be comprehensive; that is a reporter's job. Just because of WW2, and the shame that German's may feel regarding the past, should holocaust films not be made?
GunitaSingh 2 years ago
An interesting concept.Sati exists today in many ways.A human needn't be burnt sitting on pyre to call it SATI.One burns other alive in more than one way,especially emotionally,in the name of love.They are cruel enough to walk on live corpses(living without life).Unlike the extinct SATI,these games'll continue until one gives up ego and begins retrospection.Though we modified our genes,we can't deny our roots even today.We perform SATI the modern way & rationalize it too.WE'VE THE SIGNATURE.
demur123 3 years ago