1. A Timeline of Remembrance: Nirbhaya’s 16 December Nightmare
The brutal gangrape of Nirbhaya on 16 December 2012 led to widespread calls across India for sweeping changes in the way we treat sex crimes. Three years on, precious little has changed. Lest we forget, here’s a timeline of the incident that shook India.
2. Swachh Delhi App: Bugs and Clueless Government Departments
How effective is the Delhi government’s Swachh Delhi app? In the past few days, the Delhi government has scarcely paused for breath in its promotion of the app (sample tweet below), so we at The Quint decided to test it out.
3. We Cannot Forgive Salman Khan: Family of Hit-and-Run Victim
Feroz Khan had lost his father to the 2002 hit-and-run accident, for which actor Salman Khan was recently acquitted. He lost his guardian to an unforeseen tragedy, his adolescence to the fight for survival, but still he had a twinkle in his eyes.
Read to know why he can’t forgive Salman Khan for the accident.
4. Shyam Benegal Turns 81: The Filmmaker on Four of His Finest Films
Shyam Benegal, one of India’s most influential filmmakers, turned 81 on 14 December. The director reveals that he never makes birthday plans, but yes, his wife takes him out for a meal every year so that’s what they’ll do. Also, this year Osianama is holding a week long retrospective of Benegal’s films from 14-16 December, at Mumbai’s Liberty cinema.
We got the director talking about four of his finest films. Watch it!
5. Review: Barkha Dutt’s ‘This Unquiet Land’ Surprisingly Unbiased
Saloni Sharma reveiws Dutt writing from within a space where every national/regional event is now covered by television crews or phone cameras and hashed out (and hashtagged) relentlessly on social media, compacting her journalistic experience into a schema of seven biggies – gender, war, terror, religious fanaticism, Kashmir, dynastic politics, as well as the emerging responses to it and the changing social order.
6. Shah Rukh Khan’s Breaking Bad Remake Should Have This Starcast
In an interview with a leading English daily, Shah Rukh Khan has revealed that he’s in the process of remaking the hit American TV series, Breaking Bad, as a Bollywood movie.Khan says that the TV audience wouldn’t be able to accept the drug and violence which is a central premise of the show.
Leaving nothing to speculation, when the Dilwale star was quizzed if he would take up the role of Walter White, the protagonist, he was prompt to say that “great films don’t work without me, darling”. Shah Rukh Khan as Walter White is confirmed.
7. On Raj Kapoor’s Birth Anniversary, Remembering a Man Who Wept Easy
A havan was performed today by the RK family to mark the birth anniversary of India’s premier showman Raj Kapoor. If he were alive today, he would have been 91. Khalid Mohammed writes on the man who wept easy.
8. Racism, With a Dash of Mango Chutney
An Australian daily has published a racist cartoon that has elicited condemnation from the rest of the world. The cartoon depicts a starving Indian family chopping up solar panels for food. In the context of the cartoon, the solar panels have been sent to India to help curb carbon emission.
Published in Monday’s edition, the cartoon was Bill Leak’s response to the climate deal signed in Paris. India is the world’s fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
9. Catcalling a Girl? What if it Happened to Your Mom?
A survey shows that 90 percent of women and girls have been sexually harassed at least once in their lifetime.
Breakthrough (an NGO that works against sexual harassment and violence against women) has brought out two ads for its #shareyourstory campaign.
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