Apar Gupta“Our culture is the best. In our culture there is no place for a woman.” – The above is just one line from the many remarks made by ML Sharma on camera in India’s Daughter, the controversial documentary on the 2012 Delhi gang rape case.
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Why the law can’t prohibit women from participating in beauty pageants
We have come a long way from the days when we used to be a proud nation of beauty queens. Close to two decades ago, a sense of insecurity made us claim that Indian women were physically the most beautiful in the world. A basis to this hyperbole existed. Indian women had received high honours at several international beauty pageants.
India can do better than this luddite response to Uber
The Delhi transport department’s decision to ban Uber is luddite. It is reminiscent of how the first regulations concerning motor cars sought to ban them, reasoning it would scare the horses which were used to draw carriages.
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Sitting Down For Patriotism
The case of M. Salman, a 25- year old philosophy student, arrested in Thiruvananthapuram on 19 August 2014, for his refusing to stand while the national anthem was played in a cinema during a screening, highlights the legal provisions that stifle dissent. He was finally granted bail on September 22, 2014, and is currently out on bail, but still faces the prospect of a life term in prison if found guilty of sedition by the judicial process.