Amol Palekar's wife writes a letter to Sunny Leone

Amol Palekar's wife, Sandhya Gokhale, has written a letter to Sunny Leone, praising her for tactfully handling the video interview where she was being asked uncomfortable questions. 

 

In her letter, she has suggested a few things Sunny could have answered in response to the questions, thus providing her point-of-view on the matter.

 

TOI shows a copy of the letter...

 

Hello Sunny,

 

I felt compelled to write to you to applaud your dignified composure throughout the attempted public lynching by an immature, crass interviewer on national television. He tried to abnegate your present; his was a blatant misogyny. His look was torn between personal lust and cultural impairment.

 

In the very first question about 'any regrets about your past life,' his implicit agenda became evident - to get a confession of 'immoral conduct' from someone who is slotted as the best-selling yet stigmatized sex object!

 

His ulterior motive was indeed to grab the highest TRP (which otherwise would have remained at the rock bottom). He was itching to expose your vulnerability... probably to patronize you with his condescending overtures. We all saw how complicit he was in the dissection of your past which he was pruriently condemning.

 

His implication was that while making a 'wrong & morally corrupt' career choice, you had walked on a slippery slope. You were gracious enough not to point out to him that he represented all those who accompanied you all through your walk... albeit cowardly and secretly hiding to slacken their orgasmic pleasures....

 

Sunny, I was not at all surprised by his 'around the bush' approach. I would've admired him had he interrogated you straight by giving the anti-porn feminist rap about "commoditization or objectification of female body; how it's a systemized degradation, and how it leads to proliferation of sexual violence etc."...

 

Sunny, this is a classic duel between individual freedom and social control. The present day hash-tags about intolerance erupt from this very conflict. Where do you draw the line between 'allowed' and 'offensive'? Who draws that line? Who gives them that right to override your personal liberty? But moral censorship is our forte!...

 

Is a married woman devoid of the patriarchal cultural dictate? Isn‟t she expected to present her sexy avatar to her divine husband and to surrender? Is it not objectification? When you are reacting to my actions on the screen, don‟t you think that I AM the owner of my own body?...