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Though I do not support soap operas, I find the National Commission for Women’s decision to review the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act — in view of the fact that women are not being portrayed in the right perspective in television serials — amusing. The entire media, including print, television and movies, have from time immemorial portrayed men as being wicked and women as being their victims. Men have always been demonised and women depicted as the epitome of perfection. It is unfair for the NCW to take such a blatant, one-sided view. In the absence of a corresponding men’s commission, society itself seems to be becoming one-sided with only women’s issues getting all the attention.

Rohan Dharesh,

Bangalore

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