Gudiya, Hindi counterpart for a doll, was just another such woman who suffered at the hands of the orthodox Indian community. She was completely played with. Since times immemorial women have been the sole sufferers of the doings of men and the holders of the traditions of society. Though times are changing drastically but no real improvement have been marked in the situation of rural, even less literate urban women, throughout the world. Gudiya was another such woman who was used as a scapegoat to hold up the orthodox views and beliefs of those concerned. She lived a miserable life, she died a miserable death. And who's to be blamed for this? None other than our very own society which boasts of being progressive but completely lags behind. Just economic development does not hold the status of progression. Something more than that should be taken into consideration. What happened with Imrana was no different. The custodians of traditions forget that they are supposed to respect women in exactly the same manner as men or for that matter even more as she is the one who reproduces to keep the world going.
But ofcourse, this case of gudiya throws a lot of light on journalistic ethics as well. My friend's right when he said that being in the profession it becomes difficult to resist from such kinds of sting operations or peeping into the privacy of people. And this would become the obligation of even those like me who completely and whole-heartedly hate this. Reason being the competition. If someone else gets the news before me, I'll be on the verge of loosing my job. So the safest option would be to put my ethics in a safe vault and just go for it. Hence, a common consensus has to be reached at, if we budding journalists are to do something "different" for the society.
And as we all know, that's next to impossible.
