A woman raped every three minutes = 1.73% chance of a woman getting raped in India (assuming a woman lives to be 60). This is as opposed to 25% of women in the US that claim getting raped. Even if the actual rapes were ten times more than what this woman says...pretty good in comparison. Let's not change the Indian culture too dramatically
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@roddiero that says a lot about you doesnt it? anything evocative, whether lovable or otherwise stays in your mind. it is but human nature. disagree if you have to, but you are going to remember this vid for a long time, and thats exactly her point, probably every artist who tries to get across a point. the time for sitting on your backside is done. change is now
She's right that using art is a good way to get people to listen to a message they wouldn't have overwise listened to. It's also an especially good way to get children to think about complicated moral questions.
But I didn't understad the last story. Was it just a joke? or was there a deeper meaning that I didn't get?
@blueskiesmev i think she is challenging the traditional ending to fairy tales which have always been rather chauvinistic. The prince who "won" the princess was always the one who found a way of defeating her. We should learn to accept that women are just as capable as men. A strong and wise man is one who is capable of conceding defeat graciously as the prince in her story did. Hope this helped. Now I'm off to find my prince :))
@blueskiesmev - yeah, I guess she couldn't resist taking a dig at him :). I thought it was funny - but then I'm a woman ;). You do have a point though. Men should be enlisted to help fight the cause and not alienated...but you do see the point of her story? I think she makes a very good point which I hadn't thought about. In fact it wasn't until I was an adult and reread Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" (which I loved as a child) that I realised how sexist it was.
@blueskiesmev I think there is a deep meaning.That men don't accept the truth evenif they are defeated by women in anything and they want women to accept defeat.There is also another meaning..That the world also thinks that women (wives) are the one who (should) always accept defeat.That's why in the end of the story the princess says : This man shall be my WIFE(about the prince who accepted defeat)
@saajanjohn123 I understand the joke, but I don't think it fits with her talk. I think that calling the man (who did the right thing and accepted defeat) her wife is not a good thing. The man after taking a risk in stepping outsie of the normal social behaviour to do something right, is then publicly insulted by the person he was trying to treat correctly.
you cannot teach morals. not to a grown up. the world gives you new tools to do evil or good everyday and you make a choice. period. bah ! i guess she made her choice, and so did all the people who used their time for this..media...lol..no sell = no show !
550+ shows..whom did it reach.. ? do the villain really see this.. can you change people? dance for social issues does it really solve social issue ? think out of the box.. .
Yeah Allegory for rape but why does she have to bring in a specific community. It is typical Indian marxist-missionary propoganda of portraying brahmin as an object to be hated. This lends itself well into sterotyping. If for example if she had done the same thing with the Jews or Muslims people would be crying of anti-semitism and islamophobia. It is unfortunate that such a wonderful platform like TED has been used for Racist propoganda
How is this Marxist or Missionary? Listen, you're right. Regardless of what race she uses, some fool will inevitably gripe about discrimination and race propaganda, but that would be missing the larger point. Rape, and the disgust society has for such an invasive act, transcends borders. Listen to the last line of her story.
"THe one eyed monkey was left very confused at what we HUMANS called justice."
@Metaemipricus oh come on - this was just an example. My mother is a Brahmin and she didn't take offence at all. All this caste nonsense is outdated anyway.
Seriously crap... Lectures concerning social issues, personality development n blah blah blah doesnt really help in the real world.. All u got to do is Be Yourself.. n think differently within yourself....
Mallika Sarabhai fuck you bitch..! selling poverty so you become famous.. you hoe hitler also knew, help can not come from out side from another country, only Germans can help themselves..! So why the fuck are you going and running our name like that!! Is it show how open we are.. they dont really care about open media, they just care about it enough to show how great they are.. Fuck you hoe..STFU.. i am tired of people like u.
In the US there is rape every 45 sec but when ppl think of the US they think of liberty but if they think of India its the rapist!! They blame it on the blacks..so let us blame it on someone else too and forget about it!! A country is only as great as it treats its minorities and i have never seen a great country..!
your horrible language and lack of respect is just deplorable .You missed the whole point of this .your comments show your ignorance and lack of intelligence
please.. the only disappointment i have is that i could not be more rude or horrible!!! People like these sell poverty to gain fame...Do you really think the foreigners in the crowd would care for someone elses suffering! If we humans cared for others suffering their would be no war or poverty!! All she is done is project a bad name of the country and ruin the prospect of business coming to India, which is more important now for India than to rely on petty philanthropy!
She is talking bollocks. She is obviously referring to the Valmiki Ramayana, in which story, the original version confirms Ahalya had recognized Indra was naturally attracted to the God. The act, thus, was consensual, not a rape.
In a society where woman-polygamy (multiple simultaneous life-time husbands) has been a religious fact, her little social tirade doesn't quite accept fit - obviously she hasn't read what she is referring and also has trouble understanding it.
Berlusconi like Hitler????? Come on!!!!!!Is Ted allying with extreme left parties in Italy against Berlusconi? I think that there's Murdock that is way way more dangerous than Berlusconi, but she doesn't dare to mention it......... not a good example of elevated culture. Ted should take more care care of what it publishes,,,,,,, Worst Ted Video ever!!!!!!
@crudhousefull Do you even understand what I said.... im tippin no... If your going to stand on a stage preaching facts about a country and stereotype then do a little research before you make a statement. It just show how little you know about a subject/country or the people that live in it...
So tell me how thats being racist, Have you been to Australia or do you know more about this country than I do..... once again im tipping no, and you call me a moron lolz
@OziNUT You were right on the fact that I didn't do any research. But what she said still stands...indigenous prisoners constituted 24% of the Australian prison population in 2006. Still okay for me to call you a moron
@crudhousefull ATM there are 29,106 prisoners (sentenced and unsentenced) in Australian prisons, 7,656 are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders thats a national imprisonment rate of 167 prisoners per 100,000 adult population...
"If your in Australia, its mostly Aboriginal's in jail..." Her whole story is lost in what equates to this one false statement that you seem to agree with, 26% is the majority of inmates... orly... can she count???? ohh wait... can you... lolz
@OziNUT Try to understand what she was trying to say rather than picking at her choice of words. The gyst of what she was trying to make though is crystal clear, if you're a minority there's more of a probability of you being in jail. True though I made a mistake, I didn't remember her exact wording, though counting has nothing to do with it.
@crudhousefull I understand what she is saying, but... If I know one small part of this story is factually incorrect then naturally I will question the rest, anybody that does public speaking knows that you never state anything that is not true, all it takes is 1% of what you say to be incorrect and the audience will think the other 99% is as well...
@OziNUT I haven't found a video on youtube yet that doesn't make a mistake here or there. I've watched around 500 TED videos btw. People don't really have time to take enough care to say each word/phrase correctly. I'm talking about nuclear physicists all the way to Buddhist monks (some who take extreme care to say the right thing). The key is to understand the gyst of the message...not nitpick
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... art is merely created by the few who have a profound desire to express themselves and illicit an emotional (instinctual) reaction in others, and although few can express this, almost all people will have identical levels of emotional reactions to said art.
The idea of art is to create an illusion for the brain that brings a sense of chaos to the structure we try to impose on ourselves or is imposed on us in our daily lives. Art like emotion is universal.
"art is very subjective and reserved for people who can afford and understand it. "
that's a very elitist standpoint. Art is the one thing that is for everyone is what this video is all about. There is artwork I can buy from africa for mere pennies and sell it in the 'western world' for ridiculous lump sums...be they visual or auditory art, and you're saying that the 'chump' i sell it to understands it ?
you are mistaken in your assumption that art is 'reserved for the few'
The main purpose of art is to elicit an emotion. Art is enticing, art is provocative.
Art is Michael Jackson's "Bille Jean" which makes you get up and dance. Art is an Aborginians Didgeridoo song which encompasses a whole history of culture and civilization that traces back to thousands of years.
Art is an expression of the essence of life. Art is in the song of a whale. Art is in the dance of the Plumed Bird. Look around, art is everywhere!
i applaude her intentions but i think it's naive to assume that everyone understands art.
her acts are not convincing and sometimes untrue. the "minorities are in prison" part was biased and the moment she mentioned Hitler i couldn't take her seriously anymore.
she is a rich artsy person with illusions and lets be honest, when has art (for entertaining purposes) solved anything of global scale?
art is very subjective and reserved for people who can afford and understand it.
Arts is not just for the rich and people who can afford it.
Art is and has always been a source of expression of the artist.
And art at a lot of instances has risen up to express the voice of societies, especially the repressed. Like great poets have incited people to start revolutions. Like the photograph of the naked child in Vietnam which resulted in the end of the Vietnam war or the music of Bob Dylan and Paul Simon which changed the thinking of a whole generation.
I will be the first one to take a bullet for innocent children and women or even men, am not against changing the world in a good way. but those people who wants to help they must know HUMANKIND POPULATION SHOULD NOT INCREASE like they did in the past 50 years.
we neeeeeeeeeeed to control our populations numbers... because that is the the number one problem in our present day.
You are right that overpopulation is one of our greatest challenges. But would you volunteer to not have children or to adopt a China-like model of one child only?
yes, I will have one child. and by the way 2 kids are also ok (this is just my opinion) am talking about countries were a FAMILY (mostly poor family) is consisted of 5,6,7...even 12 kids in one family. which is a normal but a scary thing in Asia, Africa and South America.
If overpopulation is such a great threat to the world, then it would make more sense for you to choose to have 1 child. Take into account that your kid would have a much larger carbon footprint than someone from a developing nation and would consume more natural resources. Education of women is key to solving overpopulation so they can make better decisions for family planning.
Well if you smart enough to have one child, you will be smart enough to spend time and energy on this one child to make him environmentally aware and you can teach him what the mistakes of the past generation.
1 child in America has 5 times the carbon fingerprint of a child in China. It's not enought to teach. You would actually have to lower his/her standard of living by western standards.
carbon is a basic building block of life, it is scientific fact that when we have higher concentrations of co2, plants grow bigger, stronger,produce more oxygen, and live much longer. man made global warming is a myth, weve been cooling for 9 years. and back when there was warming, it wasnt just earth, mar's ice caps were receading to, it was our solar system, the solar cycle ran long and hard, for the first time in recorded sun activity.
Man's destruction of forests is addding to the problem of global warming. Less forests, less photosynthesis. It's anotehr reason why earth is getting so much warmer. The earth has been increasing in temperature at the same rate that carbon dioxide has been increasing in atmosphere concentration. The changes we have seen in last hundred years usually only occur naturally over a course of thousands of years. Nature cannot keep up.
the earth HAS not been increasing in temperature at the same rate as co2, gore said that and in london was actually sued for the movie, which they were showing in schools because of major faults in the movie, there were 7 the supreme court ruled, and one of them was the misinterpretation of data with the co2 warming lines,
cause when you look on a longer scale, not just the one in his little movie, you see this is a normal phase earth has always gone through, and co2 would actually start to rise right After warming periods , when temps. were going down. co2 is good! like water air and sunshine we NEEED this stuff. look it up its all true.
whoa, you are completely wrong. We need a certain concentration of CO2. If we dramatically increase it, like burning fossil fuels, we can cause massive destruction. the world is a chemical system that is in equilibrium, if you upset it, then bad things will happen. It is not a normal phase. The changes that are occuring are too fast for biosphere to keep up with.
you should try looking up scientific facts, not just the rumors spread by uneducated people who have ties to companies that profit from pollution. HAve you tried questioning your sources?
@DodgerRiley Only people with low IQs procreate anyway...unless of course the act itself is just for entertainment and no one takes necessary measures to stop pregnancy. Literacy and education are skyrocketing so we can be sure that births will slow to down to nothing very quickly
Agreed, eventhough it may sound unethical to force anyone into having an 'x' amount of babies. However, for the sake of the entire spicies, I'd gladly accept.
@megalibra82 The number one problem we face is the US roaming around with a big stick. And it'll change when China and India knock it down in a couple of decades. So basically no great big problems. Get some sleep
Interesting:) Just came to think about how artists and fictional creators all seem to be indulging in dysfunction around us. They insist on showing us the dystopia ahead, rather than imagin a better alternativ. They leave that to our politicians who sadly are mostly evil sceemers!! xP
I'm worried about teaching people they don't need to boil their water because they can just filter it with cotton. Filtering out 80% of bacteria still leaves 20% to cause diseases without even mentioning the viruses. Otherwise a good talk.
Till now, I have never heard of anyone else who is living out my dream and spreading inspiration for positive social, personal, individual change through art.
uhhh boooringggg .... dont understand why they made her talk? probably that cld have been a medium in pre-historic times... now even the rural areas of India have the fastest Internet service... moreover India is the youngest nation in the entire world.. I am very certain... dance cannot change the world... you can only change ppl's attitude/thought process ... dance is one of the many mediums. Our generation doesnt have the time and patience to watch a dance and decipher the code behind it. ;)
Speak for yourself, I have the time and patience. The people like me who do care enough to see such things are probably likely also to be the kind of people who have large incomes and large influence.
Thats good to hear but there are not many like you my friend. Art is for the rich. Give the poor good food and education which will give them jobs. That has proven to change the nation. And an educated, mentally stable guy will not go and rape. A family which has self sufficient income will not ask for dowry. Caste system is already broken in India w/ the many love marriages. Villages are becoming towns. India has the largest english speaking ppl. What does it all mean? EDUCATION!!!! :D
Good points, and you're right that education should be a major goal, but she does say that we need education as well as art. I think her point was that if people don't have the kind of emotional connection to issues that art can bring, the education won't be as effective. You can tell people all you want about hand washing, but just because they "know" they should do it doesn't mean they will.
can a poor man go for art exhibitions and buy stuff? Can the poor go for a music concert? Can the poor see a live dance performance by eminent dancers? Can a poor man get free education? Yes!! Help ppl so that they can survive in the world. After thier primary purpose is solved .. you can give them art... no offence meant!! I'm all for education :)
no he cant. But you dont have to buy art to enjoy it. A poor man can create a painting, a poor man can dance with his friend, a poor man can make music with his voice or a drum. Art is a universal instinct, the need to create, we embody the creative forces of the universe. I think looking at art through a material perspective is limiting. Of course primary purpose education yes I agree, but art is for the rich poor the young old the wise and foolish. No offense taken friend : )
that's not entirely true. singing and playing the drum without any knowledge of music won't get you anywhere. painting on a piece of paper without any knowledge of art is equaly useless.
but if you invest money in an education and you spend weeks on a painting or a piece of music, then you expect to get some sort of reward for it because like everyone else you need to eat, sleep, feed your family, etc.
you have a very romantic view of what art really is and how it fits into society.
Shel Silverstein said one of his greatest assets was not hearing about great poets until his 30s. Spending weeks on a painting or piece of music is not especially rewarding. You improve much faster if you go for quantity instead of quality, because you are able to get higher quality out of less work.
The definetion of art is something philosophers have debated about for centuries. I know many artists painters musicians whom have never had one lesson, they simply express themselves and I respect it greatly. You do not need lessons to express an emotion, and if one does, well I'm sorry for that person. How art fits into society, well that another debate. Shall we?
@oclock1983: Well I think it made sense to many except few like me. I'm talking abt dance "not changing" the world and we all can see in a few yrs what would have changed the world if not destroyed.
If "our generation doesnt have the time and patience" then surely people like this are exactly what our generation needs. Your attitude is not unrealistic, but it is defeatist and defeatism never got us anywhere. Cheers.
@JohnColt: :) Shes a good dancer but changing the world by dance is way too much for me to digest. I dont agree to that and will surely wait to see if I was proven wrong. ;)
It's something that doesn't conform exactly to your routines and preconceptions. Oh my. Well, I wish you a speedy recovery.
On a more serious note, the point is that artistic expression can often convey a practical message far more efficiently than any number of grand speeches and cheery pamflettes ever could. Here she exemplifies with both practical messages and unpleasant concepts.
Brilliant! Beautifully exposes the significance of The Arts as a universal language, which we need to empower (to take advantage of this form of communication), and reach beyond barriers of understanding between humans. We need to make the Arts and education a priority, together with health care, these need to be our first priorities worldwide. Difficult but not impossible!!! I love Mallika Sarabhai's energy and talent!
I found this video quite entertaining. All she is talking about, is teaching the ignorant about how to better take care of themselves and learn about issues, through art and culture. It's quite a good idea. Especially for the children...
Sounds like an excuse to me. Go and have a presentation like that woman did. THAT is raising awareness, and it's the only part of this that is worth respecting. A picture might say a thousand words, but try feeding a starving person with 1000 words.
if you respected what she has done, namely, her artistic presentation, you wouldn't have made the asinine comment you have made... Art is not sufficient. It is necessary. Awareness is not sufficient. It is necessary. You know the difference between necessary and sufficient? If you do, then don't ridicule the necessary just because it is not sufficient.
i live in a country that provides information towards sanitation without profit.
where you do not need witness for rape charges, where nothing is perfect, but things always improve.
care for one another.
the advantage of being an argentinean born canadian is simple, i am not fill with white guilt so i can say that a woman with a series of dots in her face dancing about monkeys and gods and rape does not inform me. it annoys me.
Mallika Sarabhai is a prime example that all of the world's people are conscious and that those who purport otherwise are simply not partaking in living a life full of life. Thank you to Mallika for her abilities to share as she does and also a big heaping of gratitude to TedTalks for being a good source of such wonderful people.
Too many people love to argue for the sake of argument. Without looking for solutions, they'll stop listening.
Labels like Liberal, Conservative, Do-Gooders, Religious, Radicals, Idealist, Naive are all stereotypes that people can give themselves or others. People can just get lazy and follow what beliefs are in their surroundings when their true feelings remain hidden or untouched.
She was not trying to prove that she is a talented dancer or an actor. Try and focus on the underlying message please. "Her art" may not have the power to change the world for the good, but art per se does have the power to influence people for the good or the bad and that's what she is trying to convey.
we shouldn't be too hasty in prosecuting alleged rapists because women have too often falsely accused men of raping them and ruined their lives, it happened in england with a celebrity years ago, the scandal ruined the man's career
no BS, women can get dna by voluntarily having sex with men and then accuse them of forcefully raping them; dna proves nothing. that's why i said not be too hasty, if there is enough evidence like bruises scars that correspond to the accused then by all means take them away; but western society is getting ridiculous, all that a woman needs to make a man lose his job is to say 'he touched me' even if that's a fabrication, no evidence is required
One woman saying, "he touched me", is not likely to lose anyone his job. I worked at a place where a male supervisor was sexually harassing his female subordinates. One complaint did nothing. Only when several other females came forward to complain of the same treatment, did the supervisor lose his job.
besides the case that me and gusphraba mentioned we know because they involved famous people, but many more of these cases happen outside the spotlight and don't get any attention. and those cases are only the ones that are proven false, how many more of these cases are there where men were just convicted? don't be a fool, of course one case proves nothing...
Besides DNA, there are other ways of proving rape, such as internal & external trauma. Yours is the classic excuse of men. Unfortunately, in India & too many other places, women have no status so rape is considered OK. There are very few women who are going to expose themselves to shame, ridicule & stigma, to punish some man. That would be the exception, not the rule.
Mallika... Superb! You have this enormous capacity to move a mountain!!! Many of us don't use the art that serves like a golden conch that pours the holy water!!!
The presentation was good but I am not sure whether this is the correct platform to showcase these things.Mallika Sarabhai is a well renound social reformer and artist.These guys do go in rural areas to showcase their points through plays.Good method to reach to the people at grass roots.Everything appreciated but I still think people watching TED have different expectations.Its like asking a science student about modern art...two different worlds...
A lot of people are bashing the video. She is making a good point. Our world needs change, and the things we are doing now obviously aren't working. Not saying her way is the best way, but at least it is a move in a new direction.
A woman raped every three minutes = 1.73% chance of a woman getting raped in India (assuming a woman lives to be 60). This is as opposed to 25% of women in the US that claim getting raped. Even if the actual rapes were ten times more than what this woman says...pretty good in comparison. Let's not change the Indian culture too dramatically
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lightandbeautiful 3 months ago
She's nothing but a high society call girl. Just dig up her past and you'll see she slept with Arun Jaitley. What a lowlife woman
shocktigirl 4 months ago
@shocktigirl Are you not listening to what she is saying?
CalypsoPandemos 3 months ago
this woman shall make the most annoying TED video ever.
robinwltrs 5 months ago
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It's very sad luking at this video...but whats the use INDIA law is not that strict.
As long as LAW is not strict she would see this kind of incidents now and then.
timeonproject 10 months ago
this ladies art is freaky as hell
johnnyboyfart 11 months ago
Morel of Story: Never accept defeat to a woman.. for she will loose respect for you as a MAN.
.. now don't blame me.. blame evolution.
BestestMoron 1 year ago
@BestestMoron Or, if she is right and you have conceded her point, then you will only gain her respect for treating her with respect.
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k1awdttt 1 year ago
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alankoku100 1 year ago
This sucks. I prefer lectures rather than this crap. This is proof that women aren't good for more than entertainment .
In that sense, bravo bravo. Now go get me some tea.
roddiero 1 year ago
@roddiero that says a lot about you doesnt it? anything evocative, whether lovable or otherwise stays in your mind. it is but human nature. disagree if you have to, but you are going to remember this vid for a long time, and thats exactly her point, probably every artist who tries to get across a point. the time for sitting on your backside is done. change is now
ogilvy85 5 months ago
She's right that using art is a good way to get people to listen to a message they wouldn't have overwise listened to. It's also an especially good way to get children to think about complicated moral questions.
But I didn't understad the last story. Was it just a joke? or was there a deeper meaning that I didn't get?
blueskiesmev 1 year ago
@blueskiesmev i think she is challenging the traditional ending to fairy tales which have always been rather chauvinistic. The prince who "won" the princess was always the one who found a way of defeating her. We should learn to accept that women are just as capable as men. A strong and wise man is one who is capable of conceding defeat graciously as the prince in her story did. Hope this helped. Now I'm off to find my prince :))
Missreepee 1 year ago
@Missreepee but he was ridiculed at the end, which is surely not the best way to promote this behaviour.
blueskiesmev 1 year ago
@blueskiesmev - yeah, I guess she couldn't resist taking a dig at him :). I thought it was funny - but then I'm a woman ;). You do have a point though. Men should be enlisted to help fight the cause and not alienated...but you do see the point of her story? I think she makes a very good point which I hadn't thought about. In fact it wasn't until I was an adult and reread Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" (which I loved as a child) that I realised how sexist it was.
Missreepee 1 year ago
@blueskiesmev I think there is a deep meaning.That men don't accept the truth evenif they are defeated by women in anything and they want women to accept defeat.There is also another meaning..That the world also thinks that women (wives) are the one who (should) always accept defeat.That's why in the end of the story the princess says : This man shall be my WIFE(about the prince who accepted defeat)
saajanjohn123 1 year ago
@saajanjohn123 I understand the joke, but I don't think it fits with her talk. I think that calling the man (who did the right thing and accepted defeat) her wife is not a good thing. The man after taking a risk in stepping outsie of the normal social behaviour to do something right, is then publicly insulted by the person he was trying to treat correctly.
blueskiesmev 1 year ago
why did she have to do all that ? inefficient.
you cannot teach morals. not to a grown up. the world gives you new tools to do evil or good everyday and you make a choice. period. bah ! i guess she made her choice, and so did all the people who used their time for this..media...lol..no sell = no show !
yaniv191983 1 year ago 2
so?
what is this?????
AsSr1141 1 year ago
550+ shows..whom did it reach.. ? do the villain really see this.. can you change people? dance for social issues does it really solve social issue ? think out of the box.. .
harisai80 1 year ago
HUH???????????? Sponsered by Barclays? You filthy, capitalistic, money hungry, free enterprising thug you!
ouquaga 2 years ago 5
Malikka is a wonderful dancer and human being.
sajitanair 2 years ago
This is a racist video. Reinforcing colonial sterotypes on brahmin comminity. I am shocked that ted has been a platform for hate.
Metaemipricus 2 years ago
What are you talking about? It's an allegory for rape as a whole. Very few people take it as relating to brahmins specifically.
gexman31 2 years ago
Yeah Allegory for rape but why does she have to bring in a specific community. It is typical Indian marxist-missionary propoganda of portraying brahmin as an object to be hated. This lends itself well into sterotyping. If for example if she had done the same thing with the Jews or Muslims people would be crying of anti-semitism and islamophobia. It is unfortunate that such a wonderful platform like TED has been used for Racist propoganda
Metaemipricus 2 years ago
How is this Marxist or Missionary? Listen, you're right. Regardless of what race she uses, some fool will inevitably gripe about discrimination and race propaganda, but that would be missing the larger point. Rape, and the disgust society has for such an invasive act, transcends borders. Listen to the last line of her story.
"THe one eyed monkey was left very confused at what we HUMANS called justice."
We humans. Not we brahmins.
gexman31 2 years ago
@Metaemipricus oh come on - this was just an example. My mother is a Brahmin and she didn't take offence at all. All this caste nonsense is outdated anyway.
Missreepee 1 year ago
Seriously crap... Lectures concerning social issues, personality development n blah blah blah doesnt really help in the real world.. All u got to do is Be Yourself.. n think differently within yourself....
prawnhot 2 years ago 2
crap!
phany007 2 years ago
Wow! As a dancer myself this makes me want to dance for other social issues. Very inspiring
marcellovaz28 2 years ago 3
shall be my ....husband not wife :)
magicznawiertara 2 years ago
@magicznawiertara it was a joke ;)
Missreepee 1 year ago
wow this made me mad.
ashtray45 2 years ago
Mallika Sarabhai fuck you bitch..! selling poverty so you become famous.. you hoe hitler also knew, help can not come from out side from another country, only Germans can help themselves..! So why the fuck are you going and running our name like that!! Is it show how open we are.. they dont really care about open media, they just care about it enough to show how great they are.. Fuck you hoe..STFU.. i am tired of people like u.
KarthikSoun 2 years ago
In the US there is rape every 45 sec but when ppl think of the US they think of liberty but if they think of India its the rapist!! They blame it on the blacks..so let us blame it on someone else too and forget about it!! A country is only as great as it treats its minorities and i have never seen a great country..!
KarthikSoun 2 years ago
your horrible language and lack of respect is just deplorable .You missed the whole point of this .your comments show your ignorance and lack of intelligence
artsyoceanic 2 years ago
please.. the only disappointment i have is that i could not be more rude or horrible!!! People like these sell poverty to gain fame...Do you really think the foreigners in the crowd would care for someone elses suffering! If we humans cared for others suffering their would be no war or poverty!! All she is done is project a bad name of the country and ruin the prospect of business coming to India, which is more important now for India than to rely on petty philanthropy!
KarthikSoun 2 years ago
As much as I love her message, the last part with the whistling princess confuses me. Not quite sure what the story is there.
SarcasticSun 2 years ago
I don't think she is annoying, in fact, the audience is much more captive than usual. Great work as a stage person!
SophosVII 2 years ago 8
What an annoying woman. I like her message and what she's trying to do, but she is quite annoying herself.
Shaktidance8 2 years ago 2
The main message is an acknowledgment for the power of the ARTS to share an awarness or insight, often transending the biases of the viewer.
Many comments are addressing the content or particulars of the story.
kosmoscitizen999 2 years ago 2
Bo-ri-ng
sameer137 2 years ago
She is talking bollocks. She is obviously referring to the Valmiki Ramayana, in which story, the original version confirms Ahalya had recognized Indra was naturally attracted to the God. The act, thus, was consensual, not a rape.
In a society where woman-polygamy (multiple simultaneous life-time husbands) has been a religious fact, her little social tirade doesn't quite accept fit - obviously she hasn't read what she is referring and also has trouble understanding it.
DesiDude666 2 years ago 3
the odd smile after the stranger rape move? what has happened to TED?
audiowiz 2 years ago 3
what a load of rubbish
rraajjeevv 2 years ago 3
Berlusconi like Hitler????? Come on!!!!!!Is Ted allying with extreme left parties in Italy against Berlusconi? I think that there's Murdock that is way way more dangerous than Berlusconi, but she doesn't dare to mention it......... not a good example of elevated culture. Ted should take more care care of what it publishes,,,,,,, Worst Ted Video ever!!!!!!
mochiam 2 years ago
@ XxSoulRazoRxX perhaps the story telling style is just one you are not familiar or comfortable with.
bentothetenthpower 2 years ago
If your in Australia, its mostly Aboriginal's in jail...
This person knows little about this country and should stick to telling story's about one eyed monkeys...
What a crock!!!!!
OziNUT 2 years ago 2
@OziNUT That's what she said you moron. Listen before being racist
crudhousefull 1 month ago
@crudhousefull Do you even understand what I said.... im tippin no... If your going to stand on a stage preaching facts about a country and stereotype then do a little research before you make a statement. It just show how little you know about a subject/country or the people that live in it...
So tell me how thats being racist, Have you been to Australia or do you know more about this country than I do..... once again im tipping no, and you call me a moron lolz
OziNUT 1 month ago
@OziNUT You were right on the fact that I didn't do any research. But what she said still stands...indigenous prisoners constituted 24% of the Australian prison population in 2006. Still okay for me to call you a moron
crudhousefull 1 month ago
@crudhousefull ATM there are 29,106 prisoners (sentenced and unsentenced) in Australian prisons, 7,656 are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders thats a national imprisonment rate of 167 prisoners per 100,000 adult population...
"If your in Australia, its mostly Aboriginal's in jail..." Her whole story is lost in what equates to this one false statement that you seem to agree with, 26% is the majority of inmates... orly... can she count???? ohh wait... can you... lolz
OziNUT 1 month ago
@OziNUT Try to understand what she was trying to say rather than picking at her choice of words. The gyst of what she was trying to make though is crystal clear, if you're a minority there's more of a probability of you being in jail. True though I made a mistake, I didn't remember her exact wording, though counting has nothing to do with it.
crudhousefull 1 month ago
@crudhousefull I understand what she is saying, but... If I know one small part of this story is factually incorrect then naturally I will question the rest, anybody that does public speaking knows that you never state anything that is not true, all it takes is 1% of what you say to be incorrect and the audience will think the other 99% is as well...
OziNUT 1 month ago
@OziNUT I haven't found a video on youtube yet that doesn't make a mistake here or there. I've watched around 500 TED videos btw. People don't really have time to take enough care to say each word/phrase correctly. I'm talking about nuclear physicists all the way to Buddhist monks (some who take extreme care to say the right thing). The key is to understand the gyst of the message...not nitpick
crudhousefull 1 month ago
this is really horrible and disturbing.The message is good, but this whole performance is just rubbish
XxSoulRazoRxX 2 years ago 5
she looks and acts and sounds like a nursery school teacher. yah, whatevvvver. TED definitely getting worse.
quosmo1 2 years ago 2
Is this supposed to be funny?
StrikerTheLizard 2 years ago 5
This is a valuable message. Hear, hear!
I like how she said that art is not the cherry on top of the cake, it's the yeast.
We need the arts more than ever!
ShadowShorts 2 years ago
....gender role versatility! graduation from rivalry! ---good sportsmanship coupled with curiosity toward mystery... may do the trick (of decent coexistence).
taumibaubo 2 years ago
man... this is just pure rubbish
Microoperations 2 years ago 2
sounds like a typical political speech
allahtalapala 2 years ago 8
i fight in mma but im also the nicest person you'll meet
FIGHTFANNERD3 2 years ago
... art is merely created by the few who have a profound desire to express themselves and illicit an emotional (instinctual) reaction in others, and although few can express this, almost all people will have identical levels of emotional reactions to said art.
The idea of art is to create an illusion for the brain that brings a sense of chaos to the structure we try to impose on ourselves or is imposed on us in our daily lives. Art like emotion is universal.
marzbar619 2 years ago
@poopistation
"art is very subjective and reserved for people who can afford and understand it. "
that's a very elitist standpoint. Art is the one thing that is for everyone is what this video is all about. There is artwork I can buy from africa for mere pennies and sell it in the 'western world' for ridiculous lump sums...be they visual or auditory art, and you're saying that the 'chump' i sell it to understands it ?
you are mistaken in your assumption that art is 'reserved for the few'
marzbar619 2 years ago
Art has always played a large role in societies.
The main purpose of art is to elicit an emotion. Art is enticing, art is provocative.
Art is Michael Jackson's "Bille Jean" which makes you get up and dance. Art is an Aborginians Didgeridoo song which encompasses a whole history of culture and civilization that traces back to thousands of years.
Art is an expression of the essence of life. Art is in the song of a whale. Art is in the dance of the Plumed Bird. Look around, art is everywhere!
afthefragile 2 years ago
PEdantic and just putt me off the genre of smooth talking jurta clad socialites
indiatrek 2 years ago
With all due respect to Mrs. Mallika Sarabhai and her Dance to change the world, but now I just need to listen to some Slayer.
doloppost 2 years ago 3
i applaude her intentions but i think it's naive to assume that everyone understands art.
her acts are not convincing and sometimes untrue. the "minorities are in prison" part was biased and the moment she mentioned Hitler i couldn't take her seriously anymore.
she is a rich artsy person with illusions and lets be honest, when has art (for entertaining purposes) solved anything of global scale?
art is very subjective and reserved for people who can afford and understand it.
poopistation 2 years ago 3
I disagree.
Arts is not just for the rich and people who can afford it.
Art is and has always been a source of expression of the artist.
And art at a lot of instances has risen up to express the voice of societies, especially the repressed. Like great poets have incited people to start revolutions. Like the photograph of the naked child in Vietnam which resulted in the end of the Vietnam war or the music of Bob Dylan and Paul Simon which changed the thinking of a whole generation.
afthefragile 2 years ago
@poopistation Your insight defies your screen name
crudhousefull 1 month ago
Beautiful!
nchinnenna 2 years ago
I will be the first one to take a bullet for innocent children and women or even men, am not against changing the world in a good way. but those people who wants to help they must know HUMANKIND POPULATION SHOULD NOT INCREASE like they did in the past 50 years.
we neeeeeeeeeeed to control our populations numbers... because that is the the number one problem in our present day.
megalibra82 2 years ago 10
You are right that overpopulation is one of our greatest challenges. But would you volunteer to not have children or to adopt a China-like model of one child only?
DodgerRiley 2 years ago
yes, I will have one child. and by the way 2 kids are also ok (this is just my opinion) am talking about countries were a FAMILY (mostly poor family) is consisted of 5,6,7...even 12 kids in one family. which is a normal but a scary thing in Asia, Africa and South America.
megalibra82 2 years ago 4
If overpopulation is such a great threat to the world, then it would make more sense for you to choose to have 1 child. Take into account that your kid would have a much larger carbon footprint than someone from a developing nation and would consume more natural resources. Education of women is key to solving overpopulation so they can make better decisions for family planning.
DodgerRiley 2 years ago 6
Well if you smart enough to have one child, you will be smart enough to spend time and energy on this one child to make him environmentally aware and you can teach him what the mistakes of the past generation.
megalibra82 2 years ago 4
1 child in America has 5 times the carbon fingerprint of a child in China. It's not enought to teach. You would actually have to lower his/her standard of living by western standards.
DodgerRiley 2 years ago 4
carbon is a basic building block of life, it is scientific fact that when we have higher concentrations of co2, plants grow bigger, stronger,produce more oxygen, and live much longer. man made global warming is a myth, weve been cooling for 9 years. and back when there was warming, it wasnt just earth, mar's ice caps were receading to, it was our solar system, the solar cycle ran long and hard, for the first time in recorded sun activity.
pandamanman89 2 years ago
Man's destruction of forests is addding to the problem of global warming. Less forests, less photosynthesis. It's anotehr reason why earth is getting so much warmer. The earth has been increasing in temperature at the same rate that carbon dioxide has been increasing in atmosphere concentration. The changes we have seen in last hundred years usually only occur naturally over a course of thousands of years. Nature cannot keep up.
DodgerRiley 2 years ago
the earth HAS not been increasing in temperature at the same rate as co2, gore said that and in london was actually sued for the movie, which they were showing in schools because of major faults in the movie, there were 7 the supreme court ruled, and one of them was the misinterpretation of data with the co2 warming lines,
pandamanman89 2 years ago
cause when you look on a longer scale, not just the one in his little movie, you see this is a normal phase earth has always gone through, and co2 would actually start to rise right After warming periods , when temps. were going down. co2 is good! like water air and sunshine we NEEED this stuff. look it up its all true.
pandamanman89 2 years ago
whoa, you are completely wrong. We need a certain concentration of CO2. If we dramatically increase it, like burning fossil fuels, we can cause massive destruction. the world is a chemical system that is in equilibrium, if you upset it, then bad things will happen. It is not a normal phase. The changes that are occuring are too fast for biosphere to keep up with.
DodgerRiley 2 years ago 3
research for youself and trust not what everyone says. look up facts yo.
pandamanman89 2 years ago
you should try looking up scientific facts, not just the rumors spread by uneducated people who have ties to companies that profit from pollution. HAve you tried questioning your sources?
DodgerRiley 2 years ago 2
@DodgerRiley Only people with low IQs procreate anyway...unless of course the act itself is just for entertainment and no one takes necessary measures to stop pregnancy. Literacy and education are skyrocketing so we can be sure that births will slow to down to nothing very quickly
crudhousefull 1 month ago
Agreed, eventhough it may sound unethical to force anyone into having an 'x' amount of babies. However, for the sake of the entire spicies, I'd gladly accept.
Drynae 2 years ago
@megalibra82 The number one problem we face is the US roaming around with a big stick. And it'll change when China and India knock it down in a couple of decades. So basically no great big problems. Get some sleep
crudhousefull 1 month ago
Dance/actor/politician. I love the way that sounds.
garvess 2 years ago
I think it's a great combination. It made me chuckle, though.
greenday07ryan 2 years ago 2
We can solve all the problems she mentioned the a god economic system.
Shaunt1 2 years ago
Interesting:) Just came to think about how artists and fictional creators all seem to be indulging in dysfunction around us. They insist on showing us the dystopia ahead, rather than imagin a better alternativ. They leave that to our politicians who sadly are mostly evil sceemers!! xP
kreaturen 2 years ago
I'm worried about teaching people they don't need to boil their water because they can just filter it with cotton. Filtering out 80% of bacteria still leaves 20% to cause diseases without even mentioning the viruses. Otherwise a good talk.
dskloet 2 years ago 3
Terence Mc.Kenna has maintained this idea for years.
Make art, press the art pedal to the metal to help change society.
Well done lady, all power to you.
Namaste
smudge6699 2 years ago 2
smoke MORE
BallinTrollin 2 years ago
I physically can't.
;-)
smudge6699 2 years ago
Till now, I have never heard of anyone else who is living out my dream and spreading inspiration for positive social, personal, individual change through art.
noterrornotear 2 years ago 2
Warm, salty tears flow from my face as I watch your TED presentation, your words resound with my own inner truth and purpose.
Till now, I have never heard anyone else speak so directly to my heart, as if you already understand and know me better than I do.
My spirit lifts in pathos and joy at being heard (myself) when I hear your words.
noterrornotear 2 years ago
uhhh boooringggg .... dont understand why they made her talk? probably that cld have been a medium in pre-historic times... now even the rural areas of India have the fastest Internet service... moreover India is the youngest nation in the entire world.. I am very certain... dance cannot change the world... you can only change ppl's attitude/thought process ... dance is one of the many mediums. Our generation doesnt have the time and patience to watch a dance and decipher the code behind it. ;)
imsubha 2 years ago 2
Speak for yourself, I have the time and patience. The people like me who do care enough to see such things are probably likely also to be the kind of people who have large incomes and large influence.
adamredwine 2 years ago
Thats good to hear but there are not many like you my friend. Art is for the rich. Give the poor good food and education which will give them jobs. That has proven to change the nation. And an educated, mentally stable guy will not go and rape. A family which has self sufficient income will not ask for dowry. Caste system is already broken in India w/ the many love marriages. Villages are becoming towns. India has the largest english speaking ppl. What does it all mean? EDUCATION!!!! :D
imsubha 2 years ago
Good points, and you're right that education should be a major goal, but she does say that we need education as well as art. I think her point was that if people don't have the kind of emotional connection to issues that art can bring, the education won't be as effective. You can tell people all you want about hand washing, but just because they "know" they should do it doesn't mean they will.
adamredwine 2 years ago
Art is for the rich?
yohy86 2 years ago
can a poor man go for art exhibitions and buy stuff? Can the poor go for a music concert? Can the poor see a live dance performance by eminent dancers? Can a poor man get free education? Yes!! Help ppl so that they can survive in the world. After thier primary purpose is solved .. you can give them art... no offence meant!! I'm all for education :)
imsubha 2 years ago
no he cant. But you dont have to buy art to enjoy it. A poor man can create a painting, a poor man can dance with his friend, a poor man can make music with his voice or a drum. Art is a universal instinct, the need to create, we embody the creative forces of the universe. I think looking at art through a material perspective is limiting. Of course primary purpose education yes I agree, but art is for the rich poor the young old the wise and foolish. No offense taken friend : )
yohy86 2 years ago 3
@yohy86
that's not entirely true. singing and playing the drum without any knowledge of music won't get you anywhere. painting on a piece of paper without any knowledge of art is equaly useless.
but if you invest money in an education and you spend weeks on a painting or a piece of music, then you expect to get some sort of reward for it because like everyone else you need to eat, sleep, feed your family, etc.
you have a very romantic view of what art really is and how it fits into society.
poopistation 2 years ago
now heres someone who follows the same school of thot..
imsubha 2 years ago
Shel Silverstein said one of his greatest assets was not hearing about great poets until his 30s. Spending weeks on a painting or piece of music is not especially rewarding. You improve much faster if you go for quantity instead of quality, because you are able to get higher quality out of less work.
LokiClock 2 years ago
@poopistation
The definetion of art is something philosophers have debated about for centuries. I know many artists painters musicians whom have never had one lesson, they simply express themselves and I respect it greatly. You do not need lessons to express an emotion, and if one does, well I'm sorry for that person. How art fits into society, well that another debate. Shall we?
yohy86 2 years ago
@imsubha @imsubha Dont agree with IMSUBHA. I am a kind of person who is hypersensitive to art and her talk to me was extremely meaningful.
oclock1983 2 years ago
@oclock1983: Well I think it made sense to many except few like me. I'm talking abt dance "not changing" the world and we all can see in a few yrs what would have changed the world if not destroyed.
imsubha 2 years ago
If "our generation doesnt have the time and patience" then surely people like this are exactly what our generation needs. Your attitude is not unrealistic, but it is defeatist and defeatism never got us anywhere. Cheers.
JohnColt 2 years ago 3
@JohnColt: :) Shes a good dancer but changing the world by dance is way too much for me to digest. I dont agree to that and will surely wait to see if I was proven wrong. ;)
imsubha 2 years ago
do the dots mean she has four husbands?
stonedfishh 2 years ago
@stonedfishh no, its just used as a fashion accessory
blitzravi 2 years ago
@stonedfishh btw its called 'bindi' ...look it up in wikipedia ...
blitzravi 2 years ago
It's all about using art as an example, and to show morals, like stories. The importance of art.
SarcasticSun 2 years ago 2
ancient gods all about raping...
blockthisuser 2 years ago
I thought TED talks were educational in nature, what's this mystical, mythical claptrap?
shashintokyo 2 years ago
Technology, Entertainment, Design. None of those are required to be educational.
Cyllid 2 years ago 4
shashintokyo:
It's something horrid, it's something terrible, it's something absolutely awful:
It's something that doesn't conform exactly to your routines and preconceptions. Oh my. Well, I wish you a speedy recovery.
On a more serious note, the point is that artistic expression can often convey a practical message far more efficiently than any number of grand speeches and cheery pamflettes ever could. Here she exemplifies with both practical messages and unpleasant concepts.
Scurmicurv 2 years ago 3
★★★★★
Katalyzt 2 years ago
Brilliant! Beautifully exposes the significance of The Arts as a universal language, which we need to empower (to take advantage of this form of communication), and reach beyond barriers of understanding between humans. We need to make the Arts and education a priority, together with health care, these need to be our first priorities worldwide. Difficult but not impossible!!! I love Mallika Sarabhai's energy and talent!
isabt4 2 years ago 7
I found this video quite entertaining. All she is talking about, is teaching the ignorant about how to better take care of themselves and learn about issues, through art and culture. It's quite a good idea. Especially for the children...
LordBLB 2 years ago 4
she has too many dots on her head
bigsmatchy 2 years ago
this is not funny or even informative...so wtf?
1984Persephone1984 2 years ago
you are really a piece of work...
dakshinamurti 2 years ago 3
That was a very strange video...
Kargoneth 2 years ago 2
wonderful video.
cannoir 2 years ago
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This is one of the reasons i'm so much against 90% of art...
OlderSnake 2 years ago
it's called being a cynical bastard.
dakshinamurti 2 years ago
Until you've proven that you've done anything about it, I'm not taking any advice from you.
OlderSnake 2 years ago
Raising awareness of a problem is doing something about it, as every 1000 miles journey begins with a single step.
dakshinamurti 2 years ago 2
Sounds like an excuse to me. Go and have a presentation like that woman did. THAT is raising awareness, and it's the only part of this that is worth respecting. A picture might say a thousand words, but try feeding a starving person with 1000 words.
OlderSnake 2 years ago
if you respected what she has done, namely, her artistic presentation, you wouldn't have made the asinine comment you have made... Art is not sufficient. It is necessary. Awareness is not sufficient. It is necessary. You know the difference between necessary and sufficient? If you do, then don't ridicule the necessary just because it is not sufficient.
dakshinamurti 2 years ago 6
i hate people that bring god (or gods) to anything
nestorrfortuna 2 years ago
i live in a country that provides information towards sanitation without profit.
where you do not need witness for rape charges, where nothing is perfect, but things always improve.
care for one another.
the advantage of being an argentinean born canadian is simple, i am not fill with white guilt so i can say that a woman with a series of dots in her face dancing about monkeys and gods and rape does not inform me. it annoys me.
nestorrfortuna 2 years ago
@nestorrfortuna just foxtrot off !
cannoir 2 years ago
I personally found this video enlightening. I will take what she has said with me as I grow into an artist.
masterofpuppets75700 2 years ago
LOL Didn't anyone else enjoy the performances?
0Krusnik0 2 years ago 2
I did : ]
LordessDrakezul 2 years ago
did anyone else enjoy a root canal without anesthesia?
nestorrfortuna 2 years ago
Mallika Sarabhai is a prime example that all of the world's people are conscious and that those who purport otherwise are simply not partaking in living a life full of life. Thank you to Mallika for her abilities to share as she does and also a big heaping of gratitude to TedTalks for being a good source of such wonderful people.
thedeeliciousplum 2 years ago 8
Too many people love to argue for the sake of argument. Without looking for solutions, they'll stop listening.
Labels like Liberal, Conservative, Do-Gooders, Religious, Radicals, Idealist, Naive are all stereotypes that people can give themselves or others. People can just get lazy and follow what beliefs are in their surroundings when their true feelings remain hidden or untouched.
RarewareLover 2 years ago 2
We have an entire part of out brains dedicated to imagination, so we wouldn't have to see people doing ridiculous dances
DrInfidel 2 years ago
The subject is a serious one, but the performance was terrible ... so, i'm not that sure if she's helping ...
herrbasan 2 years ago
@herrbasan
i know, right? i mean if she's going to portray someone who whistles the least she can do is learn how to whistle
mazdaplz 2 years ago
She was not trying to prove that she is a talented dancer or an actor. Try and focus on the underlying message please. "Her art" may not have the power to change the world for the good, but art per se does have the power to influence people for the good or the bad and that's what she is trying to convey.
sudishbhat 2 years ago 2
that shit with blood on the face was whack
seres420 2 years ago
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besides if gods in your country are perceived as rapists that says a lot about your culture
and the men in that culture; and only humans in india would call the sacrifice of a horse justice
mazdaplz 2 years ago
we shouldn't be too hasty in prosecuting alleged rapists because women have too often falsely accused men of raping them and ruined their lives, it happened in england with a celebrity years ago, the scandal ruined the man's career
mazdaplz 2 years ago
It also happened to Run of Run DMC and to a famous German talk show host.
gusphraba 2 years ago 2
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aarondkeogh 2 years ago
BS. Rape kits & DNA are all you need to prove otherwise. One case out of thousands proves nothing.
mmedefarge 2 years ago
@mmedefarge
no BS, women can get dna by voluntarily having sex with men and then accuse them of forcefully raping them; dna proves nothing. that's why i said not be too hasty, if there is enough evidence like bruises scars that correspond to the accused then by all means take them away; but western society is getting ridiculous, all that a woman needs to make a man lose his job is to say 'he touched me' even if that's a fabrication, no evidence is required
mazdaplz 2 years ago
One woman saying, "he touched me", is not likely to lose anyone his job. I worked at a place where a male supervisor was sexually harassing his female subordinates. One complaint did nothing. Only when several other females came forward to complain of the same treatment, did the supervisor lose his job.
mmedefarge 2 years ago
@mmedefarge
besides the case that me and gusphraba mentioned we know because they involved famous people, but many more of these cases happen outside the spotlight and don't get any attention. and those cases are only the ones that are proven false, how many more of these cases are there where men were just convicted? don't be a fool, of course one case proves nothing...
mazdaplz 2 years ago
Besides DNA, there are other ways of proving rape, such as internal & external trauma. Yours is the classic excuse of men. Unfortunately, in India & too many other places, women have no status so rape is considered OK. There are very few women who are going to expose themselves to shame, ridicule & stigma, to punish some man. That would be the exception, not the rule.
mmedefarge 2 years ago
Mallika... Superb! You have this enormous capacity to move a mountain!!! Many of us don't use the art that serves like a golden conch that pours the holy water!!!
iitmssiva 2 years ago
she is something else,
Good job !
IncLogic 2 years ago
And I agree that using arts is one of these best ways to reach people ..its something like arts for a social cause...
sumitron2k 2 years ago
The presentation was good but I am not sure whether this is the correct platform to showcase these things.Mallika Sarabhai is a well renound social reformer and artist.These guys do go in rural areas to showcase their points through plays.Good method to reach to the people at grass roots.Everything appreciated but I still think people watching TED have different expectations.Its like asking a science student about modern art...two different worlds...
sumitron2k 2 years ago
Guys, stop making stupid allusions towards this organisation's name being only its namesake and nothing else, please. It makes you look stupid.
Maxstate 2 years ago 5
Technology, Education, Design, or not?
Xandramas0184 2 years ago
I turned it off in less than 2 mins. It was too painful.
2plus2is9 2 years ago
interesting personality, presentation and performance .)
4intentions 2 years ago
A lot of people are bashing the video. She is making a good point. Our world needs change, and the things we are doing now obviously aren't working. Not saying her way is the best way, but at least it is a move in a new direction.
LeighTaylorz 2 years ago 3
worst TED vid EVER.
cynik45ACP 2 years ago
This is bad, but there have been worse. I hate TED vids that have nothing to do with T, E & D.
andid 2 years ago