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Neech Chikne ne 'Right to Recall' wala tweet bhi delete kar diya hain....but here it is.

Hindutva and Sexual Violence: What Are We Teaching Our Girls? At home, we are teaching our children what a good touch is and what a bad touch is. With girls especially, in a country where sexual violence is not an aberration but a pattern, this is not a one-time conversation. It is a 24x7 project. You are not just teaching a rule. You are building a moral vocabulary, a language they will use to understand their own bodies, their own boundaries, and the world around them. And then you see a video from Bengal. Young Hindu girls, possibly 13 or 14 years old, dancing to a Hindutva pop song by Sandeep Acharya, a Brahmin, the highest rung in the Hindu caste hierarchy, a man whose cultural authority in this space is therefore not incidental. The lyrics say "unki ma ka bhos*a". The girls thrust their pelvises forward, rhythmically, the way men do when they mime sexual penetration. The target of that thrust, the lyrics make clear, is the "deshdrohi", the traitor to the nation. So let us be precise about what is happening here. A sexual obscenity directed at a woman's body has been soldered onto a political target. The physical mime of rape has been repackaged as patriotic assertion. And girls who are still learning what their bodies mean are performing it, not in secret, not in shame, but with pride. With belonging. With the full weight of religious-political identity behind every thrust. This is not vulgarity. Vulgarity is accidental. This is architecture. Because here is what that video is actually doing to those girls, beneath the surface of the dance: it is teaching them that the mime of sexual violence, when aimed at the right enemy, is not violence at all. It is a virtue. It is an identity. It is what good Hindu girls do. And this is where the danger becomes generational. We know from decades of research on sexual violence that one of the primary conditions enabling it is the inability to name it. Children who cannot identify what is being done to them, who have no vocabulary for violation, are the most vulnerable. We spend enormous effort giving girls that vocabulary. We teach them: this is your body, this is your boundary, this is what assault looks like. But what happens when a cultural movement systematically blurs that vocabulary? When a 13 or 14 year old girl performs a pelvic thrust to the lyric "unki ma ka bhos*a" and feels pride rather than alarm, something has been quietly dismantled inside her moral architecture. The gesture that should register as sexual aggression has been reclassified. It is now devotion. It is now nationalism. It is now us versus them. The consequences of this reclassification are not abstract. They are consequential. First: she becomes less able to recognise sexual violence when it is directed at her, because she has already learnt that the same gesture, in the right political context, is not violence. It is empowerment. Can you believe it? A pelvic thrust with lyrics that say "unki ma ka bhos*a", symbolising rape and sexual violence, is being repackaged as empowerment. Second: she becomes capable of participating in sexual violence against other women, not despite being a woman, but partly because of the political identity that has replaced her moral one. This is nationalism now. We have already seen this. Women who cheer mob violence. Women who justify rape of the enemy. Women who look at another woman being assaulted and see not a woman, but a "deshdrohi". Third: the settled moral debate that sexual violence is wrong, which feminists, lawyers, doctors, and activists spent generations building in this country, begins to erode. Not through open argument, but through slow cultural reclassification. Rape is no longer always rape. It depends on who is doing it, and to whom, and in the name of what. Rape is being repackaged as civilizational truth. It is nationalism. It is deshbhakti. CONT++