ThePrint’s visual story uncovers a sweeping cultural phenomenon in UP, Bihar—men booking women for bawdy dances at weddings, births, funerals, and festivals. Smartphones, pornography, and reels have supercharged the vulgarisation of family entertainment. What’s particularly frightening is that underage girls and pre-teen boys are trapped in this social distortion.
The TEDBF project is vital for Navy and India. We can’t afford a repeat of Tejas
The TEDBF, Indian Naval Fighter, project is vital for Navy and India. A repeat of the much delayed, poorly executed and now-scrapped Tejas Navy cannot be allowed. The government must enforce strict deadlines and accountability for DRDO, HAL, and Navy to ensure timely execution and success of this critical project.
RBI MPC leaving rates unchanged is baffling. Single-minded inflation focus is becoming damaging
RBI MPC leaving rates unchanged reveals a baffling inconsistency with its own predictions. It highlighted inflation as a larger concern than growth, yet predicted food prices will ease from January. It simultaneously slashed growth estimates for Q3, Q4 and the full year. This single-minded inflation focus is fast becoming damaging.
UP-Bihar should be merged and the unified entity should be named “Cesspool”. It’s an absolute abyss from which there is no escape.
Worse still, is the fact that the people (especially the men) from UP-Bihar carry this mindset wherever they go. Be it the fields of Punjab or the premises of high-end IT parks in Bengaluru, their attitude towards women is pathetic.