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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The Rape Bandwagon
Only Bihari migrants rape. Women would not get raped if they wore overcoats, stayed in Bharat instead of aspiring to India, did not wear skirts to school, did not err like Seeta to cross the Lakshmanrekha , if they focussed only on housework, if they did not mix freely with boys, if they were not […]
Of Bond, Starry Birthdays And The 1984 Riots
So here is the overwhelming thing. It is the anniversary of 1984 riots. It was Aishwarya Rai’s birthday yesterday and it is Shahrukh Khan’s birthday today and on top of that.. Bond..James Bond is wowing audience worldwide. So the media is in a tizzy trying to keep up. Why am I clubbing the 1984 […]
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 […]
Headlines And Footnotes
Some time back, the brief marriage of socialite and reality TV star Kim Kardashian broke up amid speculations that it was all a publicity stunt. Publicity is big business today and those who are famous at times do not even need to do anything worthwhile to earn their fame. They are famous and just by […]
Unfollowing The Baba…
There’s a problem with our TV dish antennae in the building. It moves from its original place on the terrace, at least once every month. My mom suspects sabotage; I think it’s just the wind. But because of this, I can’t watch TV until I make a call to the company’s call centre in Indore (We are in Mumbai). […]
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 […]