Rima Kallingal lashes out at moral policing
Moral policing has become a very sensitive issue with incidents being reported frequently. Recently, a couple was harassed in Azheekal beach in Kollam by a group of men. They assaulted couple and captured the visuals on their phone. The video went viral in social medias triggering widespread discussion about this anti social activity where people have started to take law in their hands.
Aneesh, the victim in the incident was found hanging in a tree near his home at Attappady in Palakkad.
Actress Rima Kallingal, one of the very few socially committed actors has raised her voice against moral policing through a post in her official Facebook page.
The post reads,
“Recently while shooting at Alapuzha, a young boy came up to me asking for my autograph and I signed ‘Love, Rima.’
He came back to me after some time asking me to omit the word ‘love’. He feared his friends would make fun of him.
We have a younger generation growing up scared of the word ‘love’. And it could say a lot on how and who they are going to grow up into.
The rampant moral policing events at Azheekal, Nattika and more , the University college event where Soorya Gayathri, Asmitha and Jijesh were harassed, the gender segregation at Farook college and Maharajas college Principal making sexual innuendos about friendships and relationships between boys and girls… all adds up to forming a social psyche and a moral fibre that screams out that there is something unnatural about a boy and girl being together. In any which way.
Gender education and sensitisation is the need of the hour.
Our CM and DGP has come out strongly against moral policing. But what will be the immediate action taken against the people who harassed the couple at Azheekal beach?
Even if they are punished, who will punish a society who slyly harassed them and drove him to suicide? Who will and how will we change the attitude of a part of the society who is waiting for the mobile clip to come out?
Whatever said and done, a life is gone. He is no more.”
Earlier chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan also condemned the act of moral policing and directed the DGP to strick action against the perpetrators in the Azheekal beach incident. He had said that such criminal activities will not be tolerated in Kerala.
