Those who call Rama a misogynist have surely not read the Ramayana. To call a person misogynist who thinks several times before shooting an arrow at the dreadful rakshasi Tadaka, who exalts the fallen Ahalya releasing her from bonds of guilt and shame, who doesn’t harbour any ill-feeling towards his step mother and her malicious maid Manthara, who dotes over his wife and takes care of all physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual needs, even listens to her unreasonable demand of going after a golden deer, turns heaven and earth upside down to search his wife kidnapped by the Rakshasa Ravan, accepts invitation for fruits at the hands of an outcaste woman Shabari, who kills the beastly formidable Vali because he had usurped his friend Sugriva’s wife, marches over Lanka with an army of monkeys against all odds and after winning over the kingdom treats every woman with respect as his mother, a man who never eyes another woman and even though he abandons his wife for the sake of Rajdharma, never marries a second time despite such multiple marriages being the norm for Kings, well, those who call him misogynist either do not know what the word means or else are carried away by the deliberate woke propaganda that wants to destroy everything that is noble, high, grand and beautiful. What about the agnipariksha? Few know that Sita herself wilfully went through it since questions were raised regarding her chastity.
Well I could go on but then people often formed opinions driven by ideological leanings rather than facts and truths.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
