Final Untouchability

Final Untouchability

A frantic series of emails and phone calls impolitely disturbed what had till then been an uneventful May morning at the Video Volunteers office. At a human rights and media organisation like ours there are many days that shake the very foundations of one’s belief systems; this had turned into one of those days. A Community Correspondent was covering […]

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Why Murder Sells..

Why Murder Sells..

So the Talwars are back in the dock for their daughter’s murder. Last year, I read in a magazine what they had to go through during the erratic investigation of their daughter’s murder. The account of their misery was written by someone who knew the couple and can vouch for the fact that the good doctor has “gentle hands. What […]

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Feeding the voyeurs

Feeding the voyeurs

Yesterday, a tabloid that comes free with a leading national newspaper carried fuzzy but unmistakable images of a young couple being forced to get intimate in a public place by some perverts. The story was supposedly professing sympathy for the couple whose MMS was now being circulated widely. Yet the images carried by the paper, turned us all into voyeurs and added to the couple’s sense of violation many times over […]

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