By putting the entire legal burden of ‘decency’ on a dancer’s wardrobe, especially the labouring bodies of the women, the court transforms precarious living into a legal minefield.
For over a decade, Madras High Court has allowed temple cultural events subject to dress codes and anti-obscenity conditions. It has now reiterated the same for a Thoothukudi festival.
Their humorous, innuendo and expletive-laden content regularly clocks over a million views. But the family has now been ostracised in a bid to restore 'peace and purity'.
Court set aside Delhi HC’s reasoning in its order last year that said show’s content was ‘foul, indecent, and profane’. It said HC had applied incorrect standards of law to test content.
Debate on obscenity back in focus after Kerala HC quashed POCSO case against women’s rights activist who posted videos on social media showing her kids painting on her bare torso.
Case deals with viral video made by Kerala activist. Judge Kauser Edappagath said she meant to educate her children to treat nude bodies as more than ‘just sexual objects only’.
As health experts continue to emphasise the importance of breast milk for children, mothers around the country are fighting stares to nurse their little ones.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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