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Anxiety And Depression Leads To Bad Parenting. But How To Keep A Check On Them?

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I was reading Faizan Haidar’s article on Hindustan Times e-Paper, which says, “Deprivation and neglect remain key catalysts of juvenile crime”. The article mentions, “Lack of parental guidance and schooling emerge as the biggest reasons for children taking to crime. National Crime Records Bureau figures say the share of crime committed by juveniles in Delhi rose from 4.09% in … [Read more...]

Porn Ban: The Uncanny Relation Of Porn & Rape In India Can’t Just Be A Coincidence

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PORN- sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings or the like produced to elicit sexual arousal. Since the year 2013, there has been an outrage among a certain group of Indians after they found out that a PIL had been filed for ban of pornography. And now finally in 2015, we can actually see it happening. Although out of a number of porn sites, only 857 of the most viewed … [Read more...]

Slut Shaming Online Is The New Fad. Victims Of Rape And Abuse Are Suppressed, But Who Cares!

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Social networking media provides a mask. A facade behind which you can hide yourself and project your identity as you wish. In the security of being invisible, moral policing in the cyber world continues in India without anyone particularly paying attention. Be it a photograph of a child, a young girl, revenge porn or pictures of film stars, people do not hesitate before … [Read more...]

Funeral – A Place To Gossip, Brag, Complain, Eat Jalebis, And Then Maybe Some Fake Empathy

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When you lose a family member it is always upsetting and stressful. The emotions are limited to you, a few other family members and close friends, but what about others? Well, for them, funerals are just another gossip ground, whatever might be happening around it doesn’t matter to them. The aunties take these funerals to another level, when my maternal grandfather died, … [Read more...]