Our ministers have failed Nirbhaya

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What is surprising about the hullabaloo over the BBC documentary India's Daughter on the 2012 Delhi gang rape is not its content-the alleged remorselessness of criminal Mukesh Singh and his lawyers-but the handwringing and embarrassment of the ruling class.

Why did the government vainly bark at the BBC to stop its telecast? Did Meenakshi Lekhi of the BJP choose her words logically when she said showing the film could "affect tourism"? Why did the government rush to the court to secure a restraining order? Why did it pester Google to block the film and indeed got it removed from YouTube? Why did a TV anchor, known for being perpetually outraged, froth to paint the making of this film by British-Canadian film-maker Leslee Udwin as part of some sinister global plot to malign India, and, as side dish, to jack up BBC's TRP? In short, why so many red faces?

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