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Accent
2 June 2005
Real
men don't hit women
That was the message meant to be conveyed through the recent
screening of eight 60 seconds films on domestic violence by
a women's rights group and the International Centre for Research
on Women on Kolkata. Sibaji Bose reports
What
bugs me most is the deafening silence with which our society
greets the menace of domestic violence." Declares an
exasperated Anuradha Kapoor of Swayam, a Woman Rights Organization.
According to the International Clinical Epidemiologists' Network
survey of urban India, 27 per cent of the educated middle
class Indian women reported experiencing at least one form
of violent physical behaviour from their husbands.
Psychiatrist
Kedar Ranjan Banerjee of National Institute of Sciences, an
organization on mental health care, says " Domestic violence
actually ranges from denying any money to the wife to rampant
sexual abuse, psychological abuse, drunkenness and physical
abuse, with the victim often suffering from major depressive
or psychosomatic illness, quite often leading to suicidal
attempts". He confirmed that there has been a spurt in
case of domestic violence. According to him, "The husband's
'I am the Boss' syndrome, misplaced male chauvinism which
is often a hangover of his growing up in a patriarchal society,
frustrations, and ego clashes arising out of the husband's
inability to accept the professional success of his wife are
the most common reasons"……………….
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