CRPF Chief Compares Use Of Pellet Guns In Kashmir To Wife Beating

August 10, 2016 09:13

The Director General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), K Durga Prasad, recently took up an analogy that blatantly reeked of violent misogyny when he was asked a simple question by a reporter -- 'When will you stop using pellet guns on Kashmiri protestors?'

Prasad's answer was a classical paradox. "This is like asking, 'When will you stop beating your wife?' or 'Have you stopped beating your wife?'" Yes, or no, no matter what the answer to that question is, it implicates the one answering. Prasad's quip exposes the misogyny deeply ingrained in Indian mindsets. He implied the job of maintaining peace in Kashmir is the equivalent of the patriarchal control of women, by the rod, if need be.
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