Aroop Biswas has resigned. The Messi fallout in Calcutta still remains a dark day. No whitewashing, it has somewhere staged a shame for the country. The management came under scrutiny, and Satadru Dutta was arrested. Undeniably, the fans got scammed; they felt betrayed, unable to get a glimpse of their beloved Lionel Messi, following which we saw complete mayhem at the stadium—today the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan remains in shambles under a vendetta—apparently a justified vendetta, that the fans could not take a gaze at Messi. Reports now show that more than 30000 people inside Yuba Bharati had no trace of buying tickets, per Mathrubhumi. We know that with each passing day, a politically vulnerable state like West Bengal shall have more unraveling to it. We are not here to dissect how the incident happened—our eyes are currently empathising with Subhrashree Ganguly, who came under intense fire for her presence at the stadium and for a picture with Messi.
Why and how do our darts always turn towards the women? And then if the woman happens to be an artist, the darts get honed. Subhashree Ganguly, therefore, remains no exception here. We saw the trolls. What baffles us—her kids got death threats! Do we realise what this reveals about our values and what it says about the deeper flaws in our society? While the frustration is understandable—someone spending their savings in hopes of seeing their idol and leaving disappointed will naturally feel angry—it is still unclear why Subhashree Ganguly is being attacked on social media, following her family.
The virulent circus doesn’t just end at trolling of Subhashree Ganguly. It extends to anyone who is speaking up in support of the lady on social media. Content creator Prerana Das also found herself caught in the vicious cycle, given her words of support for Ganguly—the list followed singer Iman Chakraborty and many others.
Amid all of this, Subhrashree Ganguly shared a video on her official Instagram handle, with a poised reaction to the trolls—but did it help? Well, no. Because in the moments of public outrage, women become the most convenient scapegoats. It was a management failure, but somehow it morphed into a woman’s crime, simply because of her presence—her visibility became culpability. You might call this the ‘howl of justice.’ What we see is misogyny disguised as justice.
View Instagram Post 1: Messi Mess In Kolkata: Is the mud-throw on Subhashree Ganguly justified?
