nytimes.com - NEW DELHI — For a few days in March, it appeared that Indian women had kind things to say about Indian men. They said, in effect, that Indian men were not so bad. But the objective of this unprecedented defense of the average Indian male was in reality not about him at all. Something else was going on. It was only one strand in the widespread urban outrage directed against a documentary — made by a Western filmmaker, which is a crucial detail.
There could be many reasons a person would make a documentary film, but the way of the world is that the filmmaker is expected to give only exalted reasons.
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