* This shameful incident happened about 5000 years ago in India. Nowhere in the world such a despicable act against a woman has taken place since the dawn of the civilization. A woman of honour was lost in the gambling by her husband in the name of 'Dharma'. And the winner ordered his younger brother to disrobe her. In the court sat the King, the great family Patriarch, the family Guru and several valiant soldiers, who watched helplessly as the woman was being disrobed. Some men laughed and rejoiced, while the others shed tears. But none of the so called honourable men of the 'Aryavartha' stop this crime against humanity.
* And the five husbands, like eunuchs, watched their wife undergo this humiliation. It took might of the Almighty to save the honour of a helpless woman. What followed was the "Mahabharta", the epic war in which thousands of innocent lives were lost. Imagine the countless widows and orphans that war would have left behind. Did such a human loss of monumental proportion restore the honour of one woman? The history is silent on this.
* The Mahabharta was avoidable and should have been. It seems from the narrative that both the Kauravas and the Pandavas since the beginning were hellbent on fighting. But that was the 'Dwapar Yug'
* Everyday in the Kalyug in India, the poor and helpless women are stripped and paraded naked. They suffer humiliation far worse than Draupadi's. And they have no Krishna to prevent their disrobing. Even the local police doesn't register their FIR. The poor Draupadis of present day India don't have the Pandavas to fight for them and so they do the unthinkable................... (end their lives).
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