Many people say that film actress Swara Bhasker always remains embroiled in controversies, but the reality is that Swara Bhasker and people like her are consistently working toward a definite agenda. That agenda is to steer the country toward an Arabic-Islamic culture via leftist ideology. A bitter truth is that while leftists label religion as opium, these same leftists are very fond of non-Indian Islam in India. Consequently, whenever the advocacy of non-Indian Islam arises, this leftist ecosystem becomes active in supporting it.
When Swara evaluated “Jauhar” in the context of today, one might initially think that because her primary job is acting, she lacks a sense of history. However, that is not the case. She knows very well that by hyping up the subject of “Jauhar” in this manner, an illusion can be spread in the present times that the choice of “Jauhar” by Rani Padmini and all those brave women was driven not by Islamic extremism, but by the contemporary social conditions of Hindus and a Hindu anti-women mindset. Swara Bhasker remarked that after watching the “Jauhar” performed by hundreds of women in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s directed film Padmaavat, she wondered: if God forbid a woman is a victim of rape, what message does this film give her? Will she feel that by not committing suicide to save her honor, she has shown cowardice?
Just think about what kind of comparison
this is? Rape is abhorrent under any circumstances; it violates all rights of a woman, and the physical and mental pain she suffers lasts a lifetime. Even the death penalty is too light for the perpetrator of such suffering. But were the mental and physical sufferings of women during the era of Islamic invasions limited only to rape? Can one even imagine horrors like rape, gang rape lasting for days, and then being sold in markets as sex slaves? This has been the history of Islamic invasions across the world. To understand this history, one does not even need to look very far back in time. In the 1990s in Kashmir, slogans were raised from mosque microphones: “Hindus leave Kashmir, leave your property and your women here.” What happened to Sarla Bhatt and Girija Tikku at the hands of Kashmiri Islamic terrorists?
These two names come to mind immediately; otherwise, Swara perhaps wants to forget how Kashmiri Hindu women were targeted in 1989–90. Remember, in 1989 India had a democracy with democratically elected governments at both the center and in Kashmir. There was an army, police, courts, and human rights organizations. Yet, Hindu women in India had to endure this horrific torture. Therefore, one must ponder: during those times, when brutal Islamic rulers defeated other kings to establish their own rule—where the government, army, and system were entirely theirs—what must have been the plight of non-Islamic women in India?
During “Jauhar”, three methods were mostly adopted: if there were very few women, they would jump into a well to commit “Jauhar”; if there was a larger group of women, they would jump from a high mountain or kindle a massive funeral pyre to perform collective fire-immolation. Death can be achieved with just two drops of poison, but during those times, if the dead bodies of women fell into the hands of Arab and West Asian Islamic invaders, those lifeless bodies would also be desecrated. Therefore, Hindu women chose a death where even after death, their bodies would not suffer such indignity. What a horrifying death those women chose! The “Jauhar” scene in Padmaavat sends shudders down the spine; imagine what kind of terror must have gripped society when such events actually occurred. And the source of this terror was those invaders. The sole objective of Swara Bhasker and her company is to alter the perspective of Indian society so that people stop viewing such invaders with hatred.
As soon as Swara spoke on this subject, her ecosystem was ready to declare Indian social order as the culprit. The entire narrative was twisted with questions such as: does a woman who is a victim of rape not have the right to live? Questions were raised asking whether a woman’s honor is greater than her life. Under the guise of such questions, does this not look like an attempt to conceal the cruelty of Islamic terrorist invaders?
These are the people who point fingers at contemporary Hindu society by calling arranged marriage an infringement on women’s freedom. Yet, they provide ideological shelter to those brutal conquerors who crossed all limits of atrocities by turning the mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters of defeated wars into rape victims, gang-rape survivors, and sex slaves.
The so-called leftist historians of India have crippled history by raping historical facts. Now, Swara Bhasker and that ecosystem are working to reduce that history to something utterly trivial. And yes, if the question remains about what message the film Padmaavat conveys to women, remember that such brutal events do alter human psychology. This message of the film urges society to equip itself physically and mentally to annihilate such perversions.