#17. Child labour.
According to India Tribune there are over 60 million child labourers in India. They are expected to earn due to acute poverty or not knowing any better. But if they are protected, no parent would wish their children to toil in their childhood like farm bulls. And yes, child...
#9. Rape scenes in entertainment.
The word rape is a regular part of our vocabulary and sadly it is an experience of innumerable around the world. Showing how a rape is carried out is definitely not a step forward to getting rid of this evil. Rape is easily shown on screen, big and small, and...
We live with notions of democracy and free will in our mind, but the world as we have it, is not sans-censure. Acts that forbid people to indulge in something or boards that control what the population has access to, we believe, should be for the good of all. When the AIB Roast was banned, it...
NEW DELHI: 'India's Daughter', the documentary based on the 2012 Delhi gang-rape, holds a mirror to the society and its mindset, and should be watched by everybody, Nirbhaya's father said today, questioning the ban on its screening in India.
"Everyone should watch the film. If a man can speak...
India's Daughter neither vulgar nor offensive
Raucous uninformed cries for a ban contrast starkly with a restrained yet powerful and harrowing film. India's Daughter directed by Leslee Udwin-widely available on YouTube despite that futile and short-sighted ban on its telecast-on a case that...
In the run-up to celebrating 100 years of its existence, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the patriarch of all right-wing Hindu organisations, plans structural changes. A change in theuniformfrom the existing shorts to a much amiable look is also being considered.
Aiming to take India to...
Mani Shankar Aiyar is a Congress MP in the Rajya Sabha)
As the Budget figures sink in, the realization grows that by kidding itself, the BJP is presiding over an economy drifting slowly but surely to disaster.
The flaw essentially lies in the new technique its statistical advisers have provided...
we are cowards ,it's funny that bjp ban is not working after all it's been uploaded all over the internet heck now even more people are watching it,the hindutva appeasing policy is failing i just hate extreme nationalist what is the point dude?imagine a pakistani /chinese watching this...
05 March, 2015
Countercurrents.org
The claim of the Hindutva gang that Dr BR Ambedkar endorsed the Hindutva project and opposed beef-eating as cow was sacred to Hinduism is a terrible travesty of facts. Dr Ambedkar, a great researcher, produced a brilliant essay on the subject titled ‘Did The...