You never take out a candlelight vigil on India Gate when a little girl is being badly conditioned by media, by society, by the school, by all the websites, by all the influences upon her. Have you ever seen a candlelight vigil against all the corrupting forces on the little girl’s mind? Does that happen?
But when her face gets disturbed a little, then you act as if the heavens have fallen. It does not show your concern for the girl; it shows your concern for the face and the face alone. It shows that behind all the pretense of solidarity and sympathy, all you care for is just the face. You want girls to keep looking dainty and squeaky clean and pretty. Let their prettiness not be taken away. Even if their soul is sapped away, even if their minds are dirtied, all that is okay. Nobody bothers.
