To jolt me out of a stupor…

…it takes something like this. Just in case you aren’t the link-clicking type, this is what ‘Justice’s Arijit Pasayat and S.H. Kapadia of the Supreme Court of India have to say about the Janani Suraksha Yojana:
You cannot go on producing children and then make the taxpayer pay for it. We have to have some curb [...]

time to read

Before I start posting about work (as I’m very likely to start doing; I’m having a hard time not blogging about it!), I thought I should tell you about a certain classroom I visited in Bangalore. This was a first-year class of law students in a five-year course. I was asked to talk to them about [...]

And finally…

…an ad campaign that made me feel good!
There are lots of goodies in there: check out the Evolution film, the true colours campaign for the self-esteem fund, and the pro-age commerical, among other things.
Wikipedia has information about the commercial, and a warning that Unilever’s quite the hypocrite. A much better critique of the campaign is at [...]

Domestic violence goes colourful*

Apology/Update: Turns out it wasn’t Benetton (see Jill’s comment below). The ads were never sanctioned by them. So you could replace this post with a “someone’s so sick they think this is a practical joke”.
 Blr Bytes again points me to something thought-provoking: a Benetton ad(?) “issued in public interest”, part of a series called ‘Colours of [...]

Shut up, Mr. Police Officer

Gautam (formerly known as Blr Bytes) points me to the mind-numbingly-misogynistic Police Statement of The Day:
For a typical rape case the judgment is fine but in cases like this the accused should be given a chance to repent provided the victim also wants to give him the chance,” says T S Chakraborty, Additional IG, Prisons, [...]

“influenced by some western culture”

Today’s paper carried, on the front page, news of a student killed in a campus shooting, right here in my very own city. Investigation details were in the local news on an inside page. And guess what the Assistant Commissioner of Police has to say?
 We’re yet to ascertain who is at fault but it seems [...]

Censorship

There was the blog ban. Then there was the Orkut ban. Now, it’s apparently Youtube.
And the parallels between what’s in the news and what’s in my life continue.
Look at the last post. It was first posted on TomaytoTomahto. Now read the comments thread there. It’s rather two-dimensional; a conversation of sorts. Now, go to Nita’s [...]