在印度，牛比女人更安全? [英国媒体]

"I am perturbed by the fact that in mycountry, cows are considered more important than a woman, that it takes muchlonger for a woman who is raped or assaulted to get justice than for a cowwhich many Hindus consider a sacred animal," Delhi-based photographerSujatro Ghosh told the BBC.

德里的摄影师苏加特高希告诉英国广播公司说：“我很难过，在我的国家，牛被认为是比女人更重要的，对于一个被强奸强暴的女人来说，她们要得到正义的难度要远远超过牛这种被印度教徒们认为是神物的动物。”

India is often in the news for crimes againstwomen and, according to government statistics, a rape is reported every 15minutes.

印度经常有关于妇女被强奸的新闻爆出来，根据印度政府的统计，每15分钟就有一次强奸案发生。

"These cases go on for years in the courtsbefore the guilty are punished, whereas when a cow is slaughtered, Hinduextremist groups immediately go and kill or beat up whoever they suspect ofslaughter."

“这些案件在罪刑成立之前会在法庭上拖上数年时间，而当一头牛被屠杀时，印度教极端主义组织会立即去杀害或殴打他们所怀疑的任何人。”

The project, he says, is "his way ofprotesting" against the growing influence of the vigilante cow protectiongroups that have become emboldened since the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya JanataParty, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, came to power in the summer of2014.

他说，他的这个项目是“他抗议的方式”，因为印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪领导的印度人民党在2014夏天开始执政以来，保护神牛的团体的影响力越来越大。

"I've been concerned over the Dadrilynching [when a Muslim man was killed by a Hindu mob over rumours that heconsumed and stored beef] and other similar religious attacks on Muslims by cowvigilantes," Ghosh said.

高希说：“我一直担心发生达德里私刑（当一个穆斯林男子被一个印度教暴徒杀害，谣言就会说是因为他食用牛肉和储存牛肉）和其他那些被牛保护主义者杀害式的类似宗教袭击。





In recent months, the humble cow has becomeIndia's most polarising animal.

最近几个月，卑微的牛已经成为了印度最为分化的动物。

The BJP insists that the animal is holy andshould be protected. Cow slaughter is banned in several states, stringentpunishment has been introduced for offenders and parliament is considering abill to bring in the death penalty for the crime.

人民党坚持认为这种动物是神圣的，应该受到保护。在有一些州，牛被禁止屠宰，并且对罪犯实行严厉的惩罚，议会正在考虑一项法案，以对该项罪行处以死刑。

But beef is a staple for Muslims, Christians andmillions of low-caste Dalits (formerly untouchables) who have been at thereceiving end of the violence perpetrated by the cow vigilante groups.

但是牛肉一直是穆斯林、基督教徒和数百万卑贱种姓达利特（以前的贱民）的主食，他们一直在受到神牛保护组织发动的暴力事件的侵害。

Nearly a dozen people have been killed in thepast two years in the name of the cow. Targets are often picked based onunsubstantiated rumours and Muslims have been attacked for even transportingcows for milk.

在过去的两年中，有将近12人被以（伤害）神牛的名义杀害。而受害者目标往往是因为未经证实的谣言而被挑选出来的，穆斯林们甚至因为为了牛奶运送奶牛而被攻击。

Ghosh, who is from the eastern city of Kolkata(formerly Calcutta), says he became aware of "this dangerous mix ofreligion and politics" only after he moved to Delhi a few years ago andthat "this project is a silent form of protest that I think can make animpact".

高希来自于印度东部的城市加尔各答，他说他几年前搬到德里之后，才意识到“宗教和政治的这种危险混合”，“这个项目是一种沉默的抗议形式，我认为这会产生影响”。

So earlier this month, during a visit to NewYork, he bought the cow mask from a party shop and, on his return, beganshooting for the series, taking pictures of women in front of tourist hotspotsand government buildings, on the streets and in the privacy of their homes, ona boat and in a train, because "women are vulnerable everywhere".

因此，本月早些时候，在访问纽约期间，他从一家派对商店买了奶牛面具，在他回来的时候，开始拍摄连续的摄像，拍摄妇女们（带着神牛面具）的照片，在热门旅游景点以及政府大楼前，在街道上，在他们的家里，在船上，在火车上，这是因为“女性在任何地方都是危险的”。

"I photographed women from every part ofsociety. I started the project from Delhi since the capital city is the hub ofeverything - politics, religion, even most debates start here.

“我拍摄了来自社会各个角落的女性。我从德里市开始这个项目，因为首都是一切政治、宗教的枢纽，甚至大多数争议都是从这里开始的。

"I took the first photo in front of theiconic India Gate, one of the most visited tourist places in India. Then Iphotographed a model in front of the presidential palace, another on a boat inthe Hooghly river in Kolkata with the Howrah bridge as the backdrop."

“我在印度最着名的印度门之前拍摄了第一张照片，这是游客们在印度最常访问的标志性热门旅游景点。然后我在总统府前拍摄了一个模特，另一张照片是在加尔各答胡格利县河上的一艘船上，用豪拉桥来做为背景的。





His models have so far been friends and acquaintancesbecause, he says, "it's such a sensitive topic, it would have beendifficult to approach strangers".

他的模特们至今都是朋友和熟人，因为他说：“这是一个敏感的话题，很难接近陌生人。”

Two weeks ago when he launched the project onInstagram, the response was "all positive. It went viral within the firstweek, my well wishers and even people I didn't know appreciated it."

两周前，他在照片墙上启动了这个项目，上面的反应“一切都是积极的”。它在第一周内变得火爆起来，我的跟随者们，甚至是我不认识的人都很欣赏它。

But after the Indian press covered it and putout their stories on Facebook and Twitter, the backlash began.

但是在印度媒体发文章报道并将他的事情传到脸谱网和推特上之后，事情开始出现了反弹。

"Some wrote comments threatening me. OnTwitter people started trolling me, some said I, along with my models, shouldbe taken to Delhi's Jama Masjid [mosque] and slaughtered, and that our meatshould be fed to a woman journalist and a woman writer the nationalistsdespise. They said they wanted to see my mother weep over my body."

“有些人写评论威胁我。在推特上，人们开始摆弄我，一些人说我和我的模特们应该被带到德里市的贾玛清真寺被屠宰，我们的肉应该喂给一个女记者和一个民族主义者鄙视的女作家吃。他们说他们想看到我的母亲在我的尸体边上哭泣。”





Some people also contacted the Delhi police,"accusing me of trying to instigate riots and asking them to arrestme".

一些人也联系了德里市警方，“控告我企图煽动暴乱并要求他们逮捕我”。

Ghosh is not surprised by the vitriol and admitsthat his work is an "indirect comment" on the BJP.

高希对此并不感到意外，他承认自己的工作是对印度人民党的“间接评论”。

"I'm making a political statement becauseit's a political topic, but if we go deeper into the things, then we see thatHindu supremacy was always there, it has just come out in the open with thisgovernment in the past two years."

“我正在做一个政治声明，因为这是一个政治话题，但是如果我们深入研究这些事情，我们就会发现印度教的霸主地位总是存在的，它只是在这届政府刚刚过去的两年里被公开了。”

The threats, however, have failed to scare him."I'm not afraid because I'm working for the greater good," he says.

当然，这些威胁并没有吓倒他。“我不害怕，因为我在为更伟大的事情而工作。”

A positive fallout of the project going viralhas been that he's got loads of messages from women from across the globesaying they too want to be a part of this campaign.

该项目的一个积极影响是，他收到来自世界各地妇女的大量信息，说他们也想成为这项运动的一部分。

So the cow, he says, will keep travelling.

他说，他的神牛（拍摄项目）会继续进行。