Actress Mandira Bedi lost her husband Raj Kaushal on Wednesday morning. Raj was a filmmaker and a producer and aged 49, when he suffered a heart attack and passed away at his residence in Mumbai. Raj is survived by wife Mandira, son Veer, and daughter Tara. The writer-director-producer helmed three films in his career – ‘Pyaar Mein Kabhie Kabhie’, ‘Shaadi Ka Ladoo’ and ‘Anthony Kaun Hai?’ He started his own advertising production company in 1998 and went on to direct over 800 commercials. Mandira Bedi and Raj Kaushal were married since 1999.
The death of her husband has shattered Mandira Bedi, as it would anyone else. Pictures from Kaushal’s last rites ceremony show an inconsolable Mandira Bedi being comforted by friends and family. While on social media, the conversation took an ugly turn – with degenerates judging a grieving wife by the clothes she was wearing during her husband’s funeral, while others have decided to turn this irreparable loss of Bedi into an ultra-feminist cringe-fest.
Far left feminist websites are using the death of a husband and a father to further their demented worldview, in which everything is patriarchal and a result of inherent societal misogyny. The trigger point for such opportunistic clowns was Mandira Bedi carrying her husband’s bier outside their house. For ‘feminazis’, this was Mandira Bedi breaking a patriarchal stereotype and sending out a resounding message of gender equality.
A website called ‘She the People’ carried a report headlined, ‘Breaking Away From Patriarchal Customs, Mandira Bedi Performs Last Rites Of Husband.’ In it, the ultra-feminist portal claimed that while Bedi was just being a wife saying a final goodbye to her husband, she also became one of the women who defied an age-old Hindu custom that only allows men to take part in funeral rituals.
“There have been times when a deceased person is only survived by only female members of the family and distant male relatives have been asked to perform the last rites. Why are wives, daughters, mothers and female friends not allowed to take part in their loved one’s final journey? Do they have to be a man to make efforts so that their loved ones’ soul rests in peace?” the website probed.
Another website – Gulte.com made the incident all about individual freedom and choice. “The objections in Mandira’s case are downright insensitive and people’s voices are tilted more towards curbing an individual’s choice and freedom, slapping the codes and the norms of the “Indian culture” nowadays. The culture and norms are drenched in patriarchy. It is a shame how the Indian society is still quick to jump on a bandwagon to blame women for everything,” it said.
One would have thought that ultra-feminists would at least steer clear of a death, and let a family grieve in peace instead of making them mantle carriers of a societal fight against ‘patriarchy’. However, the privacy of a family has definitely not been paid heed to, and a wife is being made a feminist warrior in her time of grief, when all that she was doing was shouldering her husband in his final journey.