Wild emotion, insanity, restlessness and excitement are all present throughout Thugwidow's stellar debut ‘Dead Colony’, morphing together seamlessly and making each listener fully immersed in it’s deliberately deconstructed drum breaks, sinister atmosphere and time-stretched textures.
O sorriso de Dante
Em um por do sol funil
A lágrima quente de Dante
Não se sabe se é alegre ou desesperada
As moedas são teus olhos
Mais valiosos que toda a prata
Conservados em um tom anil ingenuidade
Nem mesmo o desleixo dos dentes apavora o barqueiro
Rejeita o espírito e o barro
Despreza a paz dolorosa
E os caminhos dos Elísios
Serve tão somente a Baco e seus caninos
A lei e a madeira fora instinto
As árvores e os homens, promessa
Os utensílios, uma bênção
O discernimento, a eterna maldição
Se rio e sento a mesa contigo
Mereço os céus e os júbilos da colheita
Se assim, não o fizer
Seriei objeto de escárnio, bruxo e demoníaco?
Em tempos e templos
O mal, vez ou outra
Será aclamado e cultivado
Como a redenção do filo cansaço
Esteja pronta plateia
Menina dos olhos tortos
Reza por um deus floreio
Destemido em frases moinho
O refúgio do instinto
Renegado pelo romance
Quando as veias sangram
E os globos oculares correm
How the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill has a utopian vision for rehabilitation of sex workers and child labourers that is likely to become a dystopian reality
Welfare through rehabilitation is the hallmark of the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act (ITPA), 1986. Adult women, whether in sex work voluntarily or not, are rescued from brothels and put up in protective homes, with or without their consent. In 'Raided', a recent study conducted by Maharashtra-based SANGRAM (Sampada Gramin Mahila Sanstha) and VAMP (Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad), 193 of the 243 women interviewed were adult, consenting sex workers.
These homes ignore inmates' needs and are often abusive, leading women to commit suicide, to riot or to escape. Without legal resources to negotiate their freedom, they languish in homes for months, or even years. Upon release, they are unwelcome at home and return to a life of penury. As per 'Raided', 77 per cent of women return to sex work. Kimberly Walters and Vibhuti Ramachandran, both ethnographers of ITPA homes, report that women perceive such 'shelter-based detention' as an 'extended mode of trafficking', like the initial entry into sex work. Both authors note that the constitutionality of these ITPA provisions is suspect.
The 2018 Trafficking Bill is unfortunately baked in the crucible of the ITPA. Its paternalist provisions on raids, rescue and rehabilitation allow for a police officer, based solely on his belief, to raid and 'rescue' a trafficked person and conduct a medical examination irrespective of the victim's wishes. The victim is placed in a protection home for short-term relief and later in a rehabilitation home for an unspecified, but 'reasonable' period based on the order of a magistrate or child welfare committee.
Where an adult survivor applies to the magistrate for release, the magistrate may reject it if she believes that the request has not been made voluntarily; there is no provision for appeal. Survivors are to be repatriated, but the status of an unwilling survivor is unclear. The government may designate existing shelter homes, including those set up under the ITPA, for rehabilitation. There is thus substantial institutional and procedural overlap between the ITPA and the bill.
The trafficking bill aims to be visionary with compensation and comprehensive services, but it ignores community-based approaches to rehabilitation and fails to comply with the Supreme Court's decision in the Karmaskar case that rehabilitation must be voluntary. It ignores the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) guidelines on trafficking and human rights, which require that rescue operations not harm the rights and dignity of survivors, that they are not subjected to mandatory HIV test or be held in custody, and that they be allowed to participate in developing anti-trafficking interventions.
Sangram Singh's Youtube channel hacked, wrestler urges government to take strict action
Sangram Singh’s Youtube channel hacked, wrestler urges government to take strict action
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Sangram Singh’s Youtube channel hacked
After Farah Khan’s Twitter handle and Vikrant Massey’s Facebook profile, wrestler and motivational speaker Sangram Singh announced that his Youtube Channel was hacked and subsequently taken down. Sangram on Tuesday shared this information on his Twitter handle and urged the government to take strict action against those…
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