Raguram

The Chief Minister of Tamilnadu personally visits the home of a man accused by several women of sexual harassment to wish him on his birthday; I, as a multiple award winning singer and voice over artiste, face a work ban by the Tamil Film Industry since 2018, for naming this poet as a molester in the MeToo movement. 5 bloody years almost and counting because the legal process is your bigger punishment; almost like they say, ‘How dare you seek justice?!’ A molester and a poet was born several decades ago and decided he can lay his hands on any woman, threaten her to silence with his closeness to multiple politicians especially the DMK. He gets awarded multiple Padma awards and the Sahitya Natak Akademi award plus multiple National Awards. This is the power that this man has and people asked why I and many other women didn’t speak up earlier. For all the speeches that politicians in Tamilnadu go on about, for safety for women this is a crying shame. Of course they will all go stone cold silent when Vairamuthu’s topic is brought up. This land has this amazing culture that Every year on a molester’s birthday, men and women in / from the great Tamil Penniyam culture find it necessary to tag the woman that’s molested and say Vayiru eriyudha? This, is our amazing rape apologist culture. Where they celebrate sex offenders and harass the women who speak up. Sensitivity, empathy, education and awareness is zero. Brij Bhushan to Vairamuthu they will all always get away because politicians would rather safeguard these men. Why even bother wishing for this magical unicorn thing called Justice which is basically absent in this land.