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Monday, March 15, 2010

"Lajja" Shame or Sham

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons” ... Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Recently while flipping through channels, I came across the opening lines of a movie, which said, " blah ... the degree of any civilization, can be judged, from the way it treats women .. " by RajKumar Santoshi. As can be seen from the first line, Rajkumar Santoshi, has shamelessly ripped off a quote from the great Russian writer and philosopher "Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky". Interestingly the name of the movie was "Lajja", which means shame in Hindi. Feminists have a nasty habit of conjuring facts out of thin air. If the opening line of a movie itself, is such a sham, God knows, what will the movie be like.