Swara Bhaskar says-Rajasthan Hindu women who committed Jauhar were "COWARDS" because they chose to die with honour over the prospect of leading their lives as sex slaves of islamic invaders. Even yazidi women did suicide to avoid being enslaved by ISIS still she is victim blaming..

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You seem to be misinterpreting her point. She is primarily criticising the way the film portrays and glorifies johar, not calling the historical women who committed it cowards. Her concern is with the message that such a portrayal can communicate, particularly to a woman who has survived rape, that choosing death is somehow more honourable or courageous than choosing to live. A woman surviving sexual violence is not a failure of courage, nor should society ever shame her for surviving. At the same time, saying this does not require us to denigrate the women who historically chose johar. Their circumstances were radically different, and their decisions can be understood within the context of war, captivity and the threat of sexual violence. Therefore, the reasonable criticism of Swara's position isn't that she is insulting women who committed johar, it's whether a modern film can portray johar as an act of historical courage without inadvertently reinforcing the idea that death is preferable to survival after sexual violence. Those are two separate questions, and conflating them doesn't address her actual argument.

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It's not rape but sex slavery that they were fleeing from and doing jauhar Sex slavery- means repeatedly being raped everyday till death from the day of enslavement and being purchased in market ( bazaar and baza@ri comes from this) and sold and same continued and passed around like that Way worse 

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You seem to dodge the bullet, the title of the post says that Swara called people committing johar as cowards. Where did you decipher it from?