The tragic suicide of Atul Subhash, the 34 year old AI enginner from Uttar Pradesh because of the harassment made towards him by his wife and her family has galvanised many Indians tp challenge the flawed gender biased Indian laws. Though it is not the first time an Indian male had to take the extreme step of suicide because of the misuse of the laws, the recent case of Atul Subhash has made the society push in the direction of fighting against the flawed laws that kick men into the hell hole of injustice.
The social media is surrounded by posts related to Atul Subhash’s suicide, Indian laws, feminist narratives and men’s rights. While majority of the netizens be it male or female speaking up against the Indian laws and men’s rights, there are still some masquerading as feminists who feel that point of view of Subhash’s wife has not been heard and the men are using the suicide of Atul Subhash in order to push their narratives.
Well, this stark difference in the point of view led to a social media slugfest between Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj, a staunch feminist renowned for fighting for men’s right and Ruchika Sharma, the distorian who once held Brahmin community and not Bakhtiyar Khilji responsible for the burning down of the ancient Nalanda University.
The slugfest started when Ruchika shared a post on her X (twitter) handle that highlighted the statement of Nikita, the wife of Atul Subhash which she purportedly gave in the police complaint against Atul. The post stated that Atul’s wife has alleged that her husband ie. Atul after drinking alcohol used to physically assault her. Sharing the post, Ruchika Sharma poured praises upon Nikita and commended her for standing against her husband. She even went too far to call the late software engineer a “misogynist”.
Ruchika in her post wrote, “This is the only part of the case you need to know. If a woman suffers from domestic violence in a marriage, all bets are off then. I’m super glad she stood up for herself and got out of the hellhole that her marriage was. No amount of alimony or lives taken can ever compensate for violence against women, it absolutely crushes you! May more women stand up for themselves and walk out on violent misogynists like the one pictured here. Shabash, Nikita! Stay safe, stay strong”.
This is the only part of the case you need to know. If a woman suffers from domestic violence in a marriage, all bets are off then. I’m super glad she stood up for herself and got out of the hellhole that her marriage was. No amount of alimony or lives taken can ever compensate… https://t.co/inDdUBWyq6 pic.twitter.com/a1QaSnWjUm
— Dr. Ruchika Sharma (@tishasaroyan) December 13, 2024
The comments of Ruchika drew many criticism. Taking offence to this, the men’s right activist and a herself a feminist, Deepika Bhardwaj crumbled down the rhetoric made by Ruchika on her post. Deepika Bhardwaj highlighted the fact that Atul Subhash before taking the extreme step had left screenshots of his whatsapp chats with his wife Nikita where it could be seen Nikita sending him articles about sexless marriage. Deepika claimed that no woman pleads with a man to have sexual intercouse with him who beats her up black and blue. She even bashed Ruchika for her insensitive tweet and mentioned that the fiction, the wife of Atul is trying to present is used by many women who lodge fake complaints against men on a daily basis.
“He has left a screenshot of a whatsapp chat between them where she has sent him articles about sexless marriage. Quite interesting that she was goading that man to have sex with her who beat her up like a beast after getting drunk right @tishasaroyan Writing these lines is not tough. Endless fiction like these are written everyday in chambers of advocates and thrown out of high courts when the case is quashed. How low will you stoop in your bid to discredit a dead man?” wrote Deepika.
He has left screenshot of whatsapp chat between them where she has sent him articles about sexless marriage. Quite interesting that she was goading that man to have sex with her who beat her up like a beast after getting drunk right @tishasaroyan
Writing these lines is not… https://t.co/aPkhxb9ZGm
— Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj (@DeepikaBhardwaj) December 13, 2024
The twitter spat turned ugly when Ruchika Sharma criticized Deepika for being a men’s right activist. Ruchika claimed that being a men’s rights activist is the biggest shame any woman can hold. She wrote, “Deepika, you’re a men’s rights activist. That’s more shame than any woman can suffer on this planet. Please touch grass and stop salivating over misogynist manifestos masquerading as last notes.”
After this, Deepika wrote that historically women have been fighting for humanity and she is proud of the work she does. Deepika wrote that “being any woman is less shameful than that woman who strips for likes of those she hates. Despo.”
Falling short of counter on the merit of the case or the pointing out fallacy in Bhardwaj’s counter, the controversial ‘distorian’ digressed to boast about her looks throughing childish tantrums, ‘you are sulking because you can’t be me, can’t look half as good as me etc.’
Nonetheless, Bhardwaj on her X timeline has been consistently raising the plight of men, flagging how a section of feminists have hijacked the much-needed movement for women’s safety and security for their personal gains and weaponised laws against innocent men by filing false cases of rape, harassement, dowry, domestic violence etc for personal vendetta, extortion etc.
Also Read: Men Too: Amid Atul Subhash harrasment case, ‘Justice is Due’ for Men
Thousands of such suicides have happened in Punjab. But these cases are not documented as crimes against men. No one collates this data. Also, no one protests for such men https://t.co/mV4FHCl3wg
— Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj (@DeepikaBhardwaj) December 14, 2024
The suicide of Atul Subhash has made the social media platform divides into sections, with only silver lining is that an intense debate has started over laws that would not oppress men (good men) and also protect women from oppresive violent men (bad men).
