What Men Think: India
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In Delhi, Tim Samuels finds an Indian city where masculinity plays out against a backdrop of class, caste and a rapidly changing economy. It is also a country that is searching its soul after a serious of notorious sexual assaults against women. Swati Maliwal from the Delhi Commission for Women reveals how she does not feel safe in her city - where there are six rapes in the capital every day. Meanwhile, a group of men tell Tim how they have faced hardships due to false dowry accusations and a divorce lawyer discloses that the courts are saddled with 50 cases of divorce every day.
Image: Sanju (with friends), is one of the men featured in the programme. He was a child worker making electric switches and has had "100 odd jobs since then". He now drives a battery operated free wheeler. Credit: Reduced Listening
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| 0:00.0 | These are seismic times for gender relations. Even just six months ago things felt very different between men and women. |
| 0:08.0 | They feel different now in terms of the way people have been talking about gender, especially women drawing a line over abuse and |
| 0:15.0 | inequality. But how is this translating to people's lives on the ground? |
| 0:20.3 | I'm Tim Samuels for the BBC World Service, exploring the changing dynamic between men and women, |
| 0:27.0 | and how men in particular are reacting to this flux, |
| 0:31.0 | men whose behavior has far-reaching consequences. I've been speaking to men |
| 0:36.0 | and women in Lagos and North Carolina, and now my journey takes me to Delhi, India. |
| 0:41.6 | A city that in recent years has become notorious for attacks |
| 0:47.2 | against women. I'm a woman, I live in Delhi. I myself don't feel safe. |
| 0:52.4 | He broke into my house. I myself don't feel safe. |
| 0:53.0 | He broke into my house, but he's still stalking me. |
| 0:56.0 | So now the police says that I should keep a gun because I'm eligible for a gun. |
| 1:00.0 | Are you going to get a gun? |
| 1:01.0 | I think I might. I mean I live alone. |
| 1:04.0 | Yet in what many see as this supremely male dominated society, some men are saying |
| 1:11.0 | the pressures on them and abuse against them are not being taken seriously. |
| 1:17.0 | Every single thing that you do, every single word you speak, every single act you do in the society, you are judge in a way that if you are not good |
| 1:25.5 | enough you are not man enough. A divorce lawyer felt unable to speak freely. |
| 1:31.1 | I feel a little bit threatened so I have be very careful. |
| 1:35.0 | The laws are more in favour of women in India. |
| 1:39.0 | In the past, they were oppressed in India. |
| 1:41.0 | Now the trend has changed. |
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