The editor of the online entertainment section of TOI tried to redo a Khushwant by morphing – rather zooming and highlighting through an arrow and a circle - the worst kind of act, for better attention of the readers to prove his degenerated sense of sexism with a caption ‘OMG …Cleavage Show’ of an otherwise simple professional photograph of a popular Bollywood actress. What was there in that image which prompted the editor to highlight it? Has he not seen the cleavage of any other woman in his life? With this perverted sense of editorship you can go on making your online edition a sexshop by putting as many arrows, indications and images of woman’s body – breasts, buttocks and pelvis etc till it is contested in the court of law as porno or the sure way of outraging the modesty of a woman. But the common public is not attracted towards it. It pulls down your prestige and makes the mockery of your paper. Perhaps you know the under lying cause how and why Khushwnat singh was fired from Illustrated Weekly? The magazine had ceased to be the carrier of respectable reading material for every household, family and drawing room. Its readers were getting confined to the clubs and coffee houses. Bennett, Coleman and Co had sensed its degeneration and promptly closed down the Weekly. Do you want the same fate for your online edition? People will not remain silent if you do this bakvas any further. Every woman has a right to have dignified and respectful place in the society. You must assure she gets it and see that her modesty is not hurt in any form by your actions directly or indirectly. The time is not far away when apart from Verma Commission’s new definition of rape, the court will also draw a line beyond that print or electronic media cannot go to attract attention through semi or complete nude photographs of women. You put black strip to cover your malafide intentions. But now this will not do. The photo-journalism is a branch of activity which has devoured the good sense of writing and understanding of the editor. Please be in your limit and don’t show to the world that you do not respect your women. You admitted that the heading could be better. But at the same time, in retaliation, you loaded more photographs to bring the situation at the same point from where it had originated. Have you really lost your sense? What you want to project? Yes, she is a woman. She has breasts. So what? She is young, attractive and beautiful. But she is not meant for your entertainment edition to attract readers. You have no right to put arrow or circle over her photograph. It is morphing of a new order. It is a crime. The fault lies in your thought process, approach and understanding of women. It is against sexism, erotica and sensuousness that the women are fighting. The aftermath of Nirbhaya episode should have taught you a lesson. But you have forgotten the tension the society is passing through. You are living in a society which has certain laws – social and legal. You have to obey them. Don’t retaliate if a woman asks you to behave in an orderly manner. She gets now more protected under the law of state than she used to have earlier. Putting online images and zoom them in your interest amount to outraging her modesty. Whatever is the level, the status or position of a woman – high or low – she has to be dealt with dignity, honour and respect? A beggar woman, a household maid or an office girl, an actress or a selected beauty queen, all have the same dignity as a woman as our daughters and sisters. There should be no distinction among them as far as the dignity of a woman is concerned. Why you try to pull her down? Why you call her a calendar girl? How would you feel if I call you a news paper vendor or a hawker? There is no difference between an editor and a news hawker. Both bring news to our door step. You must remember that women are not a sex signs. They are trying hard to change this image. And you must try to understand difference between professional and personal life. It may also be said as the reel vs. real life. You want to project that the photographs which you uploaded in retaliation as a reply belong to her real life. No. They are all stills from professional life. Women are fighting for equality and empowerment but by bringing in a woman’s or man’s anatomy to attract attention is a cheap form of journalism – print or electronic. Don’t peep into a woman’s body; don’t zoom to expose her skin pixel by pixel. Please have respect for women off-screen. You have highlighted the image of the actress encircling her breasts and cleavage. Why? Are you full of shit or have any sense of art form? Your arrows and circles create a doubtful journalism. Surely, the world of online is different from news paper. But underlying philosophy is the same. You have to have a healthy outlook of journalism. You have miserably failed in this test. You seem to have wrongly landed in this field. You can best fit as a pimp. You can attract more clients in that business than what you do to attract readers for your online entertainment section. There is an instance in our cultural history. ‘In the reign of King Dilip, there were no poor, no thieves, no fear among men and women. There was equality among people and no clash of material interest and when there were no unchaste men how could unchaste women be?’ It only means that man is elevating as well as degenerating factor for a woman. Let us accept this truth and the reality of our social life. Let us lift our women high in our mental setup and don’t degrade them only as sex symbols. She needs our help. She is God’s best creation. We must give her dignity, respect and love. I request Bennett, Coleman and co to look into the matter seriously and sack the editor(s) of the online edition of TOI as well as the editor of the entertainment section, if there is any, and replacing them by women editors so that it may get rid of filthy kind of journalism which has put your online edition into great controversy. Women journalists will at least not play the arrow-circle game and this will also be the test for the management how much respect they show for women.