Archive for October, 2005

Renounce the Religion of Passiveness

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

Pulkit Vasudha

EVERYDAY we come across stories of molestation, sexual abuse and rape in media reports. But there are cases that never get reported because the degree of violence of the act is not serious enough to grant it space even in local newspapers, forget leading dailies.
`What happened today’
For me and several other single women living [...]

Billboards and Popular Culture

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

The earlier stigma associated with popular culture has given way to exhaustive analysis of its role and influence in modern society. In this age of global capitalism, intense competition between product manufacturing units has led to a boom in the advertising industry. Billboards are crucial to the advertising campaign of any product that aims to [...]