The more he saw the photograph, of the little girl in her purple tunic with yellow flowers, he thought he began to understand her; her fear, her absolute helplessness, her pain. While Sen has gone from bloodied slippers to the image of a girl holding flowers, it is the thread of “humanizing the victim” that runs through. Protest marches are erupting across the country, but when the angry sloganeering ends, let the image of Sen’s happy girl picking flowers in the meadow remind you that something is rotten. We are not reproducing the photograph of the girl or Sen’s evocative illustration because of a new Delhi high court order barring media houses from doing so. But do this: Picture the happiest little girl you know.

Source: Mint April 14, 2018 03:33 UTC