In a country, which adamantly refuses to recognise “marital rape”, we are still far away from these complicated conversations about sex, coercion, entitlement and misogyny in the bedroom.
The clause of the Indian Penal Code that allowed intercourse with married girls between 15 and 18 years was rendered irrelevant by POCSO Act before this decision.
Going through their Instagrams and dissecting their ‘statements’ is not the astute political commentary you think it is—it is time for us to back off from targeting 20-year-olds.
Companies are borrowing more from banks and public. Economists say high capacity utilisation & growing new orders could set stage for renewed investment push by India Inc.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
What happened with Aziz Ansari is something that happened on the otherside of the planet in a first world country with an entirely different culture.
Its high time Indian liberals stop projecting the neurosis of their Western counterparts and badgering Indians with their edification on what “Indians” ought to do.
So much for lazy “hashtag” movements and the dubious world of online outrage! Real social change doesnt take place in newspaper columns and twitter – it takes place on the streets, in people’s homes and in the offices, schools and colleges.
Indian male self-advertised “feminist” liberals would do well to keep their virtue signalling to a minimum lest they too meet the unfortunate and tragic public humiliation meted out to self avowed “feminist” Aziz Ansari when he made the tragic mistake of entertaining a gold digging celebrity chasing tart and serving her the wrong kind of wine.
Sorry, why should men be forced to decipher these cues when she could have said a ‘no’ – if she had wanted to??? She was the one who stalked him. Classical case of solicit sex and then cry rape.
What happened with Aziz Ansari is something that happened on the otherside of the planet in a first world country with an entirely different culture.
Its high time Indian liberals stop projecting the neurosis of their Western counterparts and badgering Indians with their edification on what “Indians” ought to do.
So much for lazy “hashtag” movements and the dubious world of online outrage! Real social change doesnt take place in newspaper columns and twitter – it takes place on the streets, in people’s homes and in the offices, schools and colleges.
Indian male self-advertised “feminist” liberals would do well to keep their virtue signalling to a minimum lest they too meet the unfortunate and tragic public humiliation meted out to self avowed “feminist” Aziz Ansari when he made the tragic mistake of entertaining a gold digging celebrity chasing tart and serving her the wrong kind of wine.
Sorry, why should men be forced to decipher these cues when she could have said a ‘no’ – if she had wanted to??? She was the one who stalked him. Classical case of solicit sex and then cry rape.