They took a young woman and cut her in half’: Twinkle Khanna on Rhea's media trial

On the wake of the serious allegations against Rhea Chakraborty a number of celebs  call out the media trial carried on by news channels. The latest celebrity to join the list is Twinkle Khanna.  In her latest weekly column for a newspaper, Twinkle used the allegory of magicians and how they ‘cut young girls in halves’ for the entertainment of the masses.In her column for The Times of India, Twinkle described the five parts of a magical act, drawing references to the Sushan’s death case, without ever naming any of the parties. She described the ‘production’ of a ‘corpse that appears on your television screens’, the ‘vanishing’ of ‘facts which can be made to fade away when they don’t suit our anchors’, the ‘metamorphosis’ of ‘a suicide into a murder, and a girlfriend into a gold-digger’, the ‘transposition’ as all other matters of national importance take a back seat for ‘a drug cartel hinging on 59 grams of cannabis’, and finally, ‘levitation’ by ‘making an entire political party rise in the eyes of its prospective voters.’

“They took a young woman and cut her in half. They sliced through her T-shirt, one that stated ‘Roses are red, violets are blue, let’s smash the patriarchy, me and you’, the blade going into her flesh, her very life draining away before a live audience of millions. What do these magicians tell themselves when the camera is switched off I wonder? Do they justify it as mere collateral damage — one life in exchange for entertaining and distracting 1.3 billion for months,” she wrote in her column. Earlier, actor-singer Shibani Dandekar had also spoken about the treatment meted out to her friend Rhea. Taapsee Pannu, Richa Chadha, Anurag Kashyap and others have shown their support for the actor.  The special NCB court, on Friday, rejected the bail pleas of Rhea and Showik who have been sent into judicial custody under Section 27A of the NDPS Act. The Jalebi actress is likely to apply for a bail at High Court next week.