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.
Charges against AIB are another sign that our hate speech laws need reform
Our goal has to be to reach legal standards that prevent any abuse. At its heart should be removing the tremendous subjectivity that permits the most easily offended to have their day in court as the author, artist or activist spends a night in jail.
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.