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Negative portrayal of women in serials flayed

Staff Reporter

MADURAI: Women should not compromise on any violation of their rights but seek the assistance of law when they were subjected to atrocities, said V.R. Lakshminarayanan, former Director General of Police, here on Saturday.

Delivering the valedictory address at a 15-day training programme on human rights for the college students organised by the Society for Community Organisation (SOCO) Trust, he said that women should come forward to assert their rights. He flayed television serials for portraying women negatively as they contributed to the subservience of women.

He came down heavily on authorities who continued to deny the existence of bonded labour. Instead of identifying and releasing bonded workers, attempts were made to cover up their existence, he said.

Presiding over the function, Ignatius Mary, Principal, Fatima College, said that communal discrimination continued even in colleges where human rights found place in the curriculum. The real purpose of education was to mould sensitive human beings, she said. Even eve teasing had been given a caste colour, she lamented and said students had the potential to make the society free from human rights violations.

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