Satyamev Jayate : Domestic Violence - Education For All (Part 2)

Satyamev Jayate : Domestic Violence - History Of Violence (Part 1)

More than 50 per cent of casualty cases at just one hospital in the metropolis of Mumbai are due to domestic violence. For Snehalata and Rashmi, it was a part of daily life until they gathered up the courage to walk out. For countless other women like them, violence at the hands of their husbands is an unavoidable reality. 

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 Satyamev Jayate : Domestic Violence -- Danger At Home

 

For countless women, entering married life often means the beginning of a stressful, violent existence. Beating one's wife seems to be ingrained in many men's mindsets as the appropriate behaviour for a strong male, but the consequences are misery for the wife and children, and often a broken, unhappy home. The concept of domestic violence is based on the notion of patriarchy, which needs to be converted into equality. 

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 Satyamev Jayate : Domestic Violence - What kind of man do you want to be?

 

Anand Pawar, one of the audience members, says that the definition of being male has to undergo a transformation. Being a man does not only mean displaying macho behaviour, he says, and asks whether men want to be known as the husband and father who is feared by the family, or one who is welcomed and loved. 

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 Satyamev Jayate : Domestic Violence -- Education for all (Part 2)

 

A cross-section of men are asked whether they beat their wives, and why. Why do men believe that it is their birthright to assault women? Some light on the question is shed by Kamla Bhasin, an advisor at Sangat, the South Asian Network of Gender Activists and Trainers, and has been working on women's issues for the last 42 years.