Mahmood Farooqui
Mahmood Farooqui
Mahmood Farooqui is an Indian writer, performer and director. He specializes in a type of story-telling known as Dastangoi. Farooqui along with his uncle Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, noted Urdu poet and literary critic, revived Dastangoi, the ancient art of Urdu story telling. He was awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar in 2010 for it.
"William Darymple asking my rapist to speak at #JLF and then blocking me for criticizing him is the reality that many women who come forward against powerful men face. The rapist isn’t considered the problem, the survivor is. If only they would stay silent the issue would go away."
"[Justice Ashutosh Kumar had said that the appellant] “had no idea that the prosecutrix was unwilling, and there are instances when a feeble ‘no’ on the part of a woman may mean ‘yes’ during the course of a sexual act”... “In cases where the parties are known to each other, it could be really difficult to decipher whether a feeble ‘no’ – (accompanied by) little or no resistance – actually amounts to denial of consent,” ... “And even if it did occur, (there is lack of clarity on) whether it was without the consent/will of the prosecutrix,”.... “it may not necessarily always mean yes in case of yes or no in case of no” during “an act of passion, actuated by libido”."
