World stands a mute spectator to Gaza conflict

Most countries are only talking politics (Source: Google)

The kidnapping and killing of three Israeli students has reopened a vicious circle of hate, revenge, killings and war in West Asia. 

The ongoing Israeli onslaught in Gaza has entered its second week and the death toll continues to mount. 

More than 300 people have lost their lives and around 50,000 have been rendered homeless, but the world stands a mute spectator.

The scenes of death and chaos aren’t as disturbing as the fact that, apart from condemning the offensive, no nation has even tried to intervene. 

India itself has taken a very cautious stance on the issue. 

Parliament refused to have a debate over the issue since India shares diplomatic ties with both Israel and Palestine. 

India is the largest customer of Israeli military equipment; the West Asian nation is our second-largest military partner after Russia. 

India has also recognised Palestinian statehood following its own declaration in November 1988.

If India took a well-calculated stand, the United States made sure there were no second thoughts on its stand when President Barack Obama said: “Our understanding is the current military ground operations are designed to deal with the tunnels. 

"And we are hopeful that Israel will continue to approach this process in a way that minimises civilian casualties.” 

The way most countries have reacted to the conflict makes it clear they are talking politics, and that the lives at stake are none of their business. 

Instead of demanding a halt to both Hamas and Israel’s war campaign over the Gaza strip, Western powers have chosen to take sides. 

According to the West, if it wasn’t for Hamas’s rockets fired out of Gaza, all of this bloodletting would end. 

It does not matter which side is wrong and which is right, for hundreds of lives have already been lost and the brutal reality is that the bodies will keep piling up if the rest of the world does not step in.

© 2014 Nasreen Ghani

Published in Daily Mail and Mail Today
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/article-2699225/Gaza-conflict-World-stands-mute-spectator.html

India does not have the money to spend on statues

The Statue of Unity - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

IN his first Budget, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley pointed at India’s poor performance in the Human Development Index survey. 

He said India’s performance continues to be below the global average in most of the HDI indicators like life expectancy at birth, mean years of schooling and expected years of schooling. 

Yet he chose to allocate Rs 200 crore for the Statue of Unity, a figure of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel while he sanctioned Rs 100 crore for girl child education.

Such allocations are unusual in developing nations where elections are still being fought on issues of bijli, sadak and paani. 

Political parties including the BJP had targeted Mayawati for building the Rashtriya Dalit Prerna Sthal in Noida at a cost of Rs 685 crore, but now it is okay to construct a statue and spend crores on it while children starve to death in a country grappling with poverty, sluggish growth and a daunting deficit. 

Jaitley’s allocation would certainly not be enough since the actual cost of building the statue is pegged at Rs 2,500 crore. 

So what does Prime Minister Narendra Modi plan to do apart from asking people to donate funds? 

Does he expect states to follow in the steps of Gujarat and make a provision for a Rs 100-crore fund for the statue in their budgets? 

And why only blame Modi or Jaitley, the Prithviraj Chavan-led Maharashtra government recently sanctioned a budget of Rs 100 crore for a Chhatrapati Shivaji statue. 

While millions of people in India are still uneducated, don’t have homes to stay in, sleep on empty stomachs and die because of unavailability of medical aid, a substantial amount of the nation’s money is being used to build sculptures. 

No matter which way I say it, the fact remains that it’s a top-down expenditure of public funds and it isn’t unpatriotic to question its usefulness, especially at a time of economic anxiety.

© 2014 Nasreen Ghani

Published in Daily Mail and Mail Today
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2690777/India-does-not-money-spend-statues.html

Indians hit new low over Sharapova

All it took to offend 'patriotic' Indians this time was ace tennis player Maria Sharapova admitting that she did not know who Sachin Tendulkar was. 

Tennis player Maria Sharapova

What hypocrites we Indians are! It turns into a life and death situation if a top Russian tennis player does not follow cricket and has no clue about Tendulkar, but it is all right if more than 90 per cent of Indians don't know what their national game is and who captains the team. 

Some of our Bollywood actors have no clue who the country's President is! 

The outburst on social networking sites including Twitter and Facebook is less about Indians being hypocrites than it is about the patriarchal mindset of Indian men, who have all the time in the world when it comes to demeaning a woman. Any woman, even Sharapova. 

Sharapova's Facebook page was bombarded with such horrid comments that most aren't even print-worthy. 

If cricket is religion and Sachin is God, then all of his followers who went after Sharapova seem to be imps from hell. 

As much as Indians believe that cricket is the only sport being played out there, it is a fact that football, rugby and tennis are watched and loved far more worldwide. 

How many of us know anything about tennis? 

Let me only count our cricket players and keep the rest of the population out of this one - ask any Indian cricket player who Sardara Singh is. I am certain most would not know he is the Indian hockey team captain.

You may even have something to say to Virender Sehwag, an Indian, who did not know who legendary cricket players Vinoo Mankad and Pankaj Roy were, even though they played the same sport for the country. 

If Sharapova's confession was honest, the Indian cyber-reaction to it was pure filth.

© 2014 Nasreen Ghani

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2682471/WHIPLASH-Indians-hit-new-low-Sharapova.html

Why tongues should stop wagging over Preity

NO

Actor Preity Zinta (Source: Google)

, I wasn't present when Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia got into a fight - and yes, you weren't either.

I don't know what happened between the two, and the same goes for you.

The allegations made by Preity Zinta are disturbing, but not more than all the talk surrounding the issue.

Tongues have been wagging ever since the FIR was lodged, men's and women's both. 

The most troubling of all has been this one particular line. And I have lost count of the number of times I have heard it. 

"There are gang-rapes being reported from every nook and corner of the country and instead the cops are focusing on Preity's tiff with her lover. It is an obvious waste of resources."

So are you telling me that a girl who has been abused should not report matters just because there are bigger problems here? That I should not report a rape incident because someone else was gang-raped or murdered? 

According to the law, harassing a person is and will always be a crime.

We have the orthodox mindset at work again: "Suits a woman right for being in a live-in relationship. 

"She has been in a live-in with Wadia. What is the big deal if he abused her verbally? It happens; plus girls like 'her' deserve it." 

Are you really implying that assault, verbal or physical, in marriage will also be justified? And that you are OK if a woman is harassed over dowry? 

You might as well be justifying and sympathising with jilted lovers throwing acid on their exes. Well, people like you will do better behind bars. 

Indians cannot get enough of the publicity notion, either. "She is a fading actress and needs publicity to survive." 

If anyone of you ever gets the chance to meet Preity, you will be ready to die and kill for a picture with her. This pretty much trashes the theory of a 'fading actress'. 

Just because Preity is an actor, does not mean the public can indulge in character assassination.

I certainly do not have the right to comment on anyone's character - and neither do you.

© 2014 Nasreen Ghani

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2674228/WHIPLASH-Why-tongues-stop-wagging-Preity.html

Much ado about the fair railways hike

Indian Railway horror (Source: Google)

I am an avid traveller and have always enjoyed travelling, but there is not one such instance that I have travelled with a free mind. 

Whenever I had to take a train, the first and the foremost concern for my family was how safe I would be while travelling. 

Who would want to hear about their loved one being hurled out of a moving train if they resisted eve-teasing or rape?

And so I never had the luxury to travel in a general compartment. 

And, what about the quality of food? I remember one instance where a friend couldn't stop throwing up after she had food provided by the railways. We had to abandon our journey and get down at the next station to rush her to a hospital.

I can vouch that no one would like the idea of spending a vacation in a hospital bed.

The lesser said the better about the toilets. Each one of us makes sure we don't eat or drink before boarding a train. Using a toilet in the train has been one of the most harrowing experiences. I would rather go out in a field than be in a train toilet. 

All this only points to the deteriorating condition of the railways' services - a fact which the public transporter will grudgingly admit. 

Certainly the Indian Railways require some serious overhaul and maintenance to ensure that train journey is a pleasurable experience for the millions of train commuters. 

Going by the Indian Railways' financial health, all this will undeniably require more funds. 

The fare hike will help Indian Railways raise an additional Rs 8,000 crore in the fiscal 2014-15. 

The Narendra Modi-led NDA government's decision to hike passenger fares does come across as a harsh decision to many, but it is time for the public to look at the bigger picture.

I am sure the hike will pinch pockets, but I wouldn't mind paying a little extra if it means safer train journeys, availability of food that is edible and access to clean toilets.

© 2014 Nasreen Ghani

Published in Daily Mail and Mail Today
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2665301/WHIPLASH-Much-ado-fair-railways-hike.html

Fate of Delhi University students hang in mid-air

The future of Delhi University's Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) has been looking uncertain, with HRD Minister Smriti Irani asking the university to review the system. 

The university has been facing chaos and confusion regarding the FYUP. 

With no clarity, the future of DU students and those applying to the university this year can be best described as hanging in mid-air.

Neither the university nor the HRD ministry has the answer to every student's question: 'What now?'

In fact, the current, first FYUP batch are not sure about their course plan, as well as the provisions and time duration of their course studies.

The FYUP has been a cause for concern ever since its introduction last year. 

Whatever charm the course had on paper faded away gradually in the first year of its implementation, not because it was not worth it, but because of the uncertainty and politics surrounding it. 

To start with, the FYUP has been introduced with a purpose to prepare students for life after college. 

The foundation courses introduced include Literature and Creativity, IT; Business, Entrepreneurship and Management, Governance and Citizenship, History, Culture and Civilisation, Building Mathematical Ability, and Environment and Public Health. 

Whichever angle one looks from, none can deny that the above mentioned courses will only enhance a student's knowledge. 

DU vice-chancellor Dinesh Singh had more or less introduced FYUP despite much opposition from professors and students, especially when the university was not prepared for it.

It is a known fact that the Delhi University's infrastructure is sorely inadequate even for a three-year course. For instance, the university still has around 4,000 vacant teaching positions. 

But then a four-year course would also qualify the graduate immediately for a post-graduate course abroad where undergraduate courses are of four-year duration, and universities insist on four years of college (for students from all countries) before considering a student for a PG admission. 

A little planning on infrastructure and other basic requirements would not have hurt anyone. And, all this opposition to the programme had not happened either. Rolling the programme back is no answer to the problem. 

We should remember - change is difficult and hard to accept but is usually done for the larger good.

© 2014 Nasreen Ghani

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2658499/WHIPLASH-Fate-Delhi-University-students-hangs-mid-air.html

It's time we learnt to tackle our deadly traffic

SENIOR BJP leader Gopinath Munde's death did come as a shock, but the nature of the road accident did not.

This is simply because you read about or come across fatal road accidents almost every day. 

According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), as many as 461 people died and 1,301 more got injured every day in traffic accidents in the country during 2012. 

This comes to 19 deaths every hour - or more than one death every three minutes.

Even though we see a number of deaths in road accidents, the authorities concerned have failed to take any steps to bring the number down. 

Whatever little measures are taken, the implementation is so pathetic, the law is reduced to being a rude joke.

For jumping a traffic signal, a person is fined a meagre sum of Rs 100. For those who have cars and bikes, what value does a Rs 100 note have when they spend four times as much on fuel almost daily?

To top it all, there are the name-droppers who seem to be able to get away with anything. How often have we seen people with connections flout rules only to escape without any punishment? 

Drunk driving, no problem! Who cares if you crash into another vehicle owing to your carelessness? A good connection will get you out, don't worry. 

And why just blame the motorists? While most developing countries make rear seat belts mandatory, India has no such law. As a result, most car companies don't even provide seat belts on back seats. 

Several experts have opined that Union minister Munde would have escaped the accident unscathed if he had the belt on. 

We need to take some serious steps to rein in the high incidence of road accidents in India. 

For example, whatever might the offence, even something as small as jumping the red light or not wearing a seat belt or helmet, it should be subject to a hefty fine of nothing less than Rs 5,000.

People who don't pay can enjoy jail for a week or two. With most motorists having little regard for traffic rules, we need to tackle rule-breakers with an iron-fist. It's the need of the hour.

© 2014 Nasreen Ghani

Published in Daily Mail and Mail Today

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2652208/WHIPLASH-Its-time-learnt-tackle-deadly-traffic.html

Living with fear in India's rape province

The two girls were gang-raped and murdered. (Source: Google)

Numbers never lie. In 2013, Uttar Pradesh registered 126 rape cases per week. 

And this did not ring any alarm bells with the state government or Chief Minsiter Akhilesh Yadav. 

Unfortunately, Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav had declared at a public meeting in Moradabad on April 10 that “Ladke, ladke hain.

"Galti ho jati hai (Boys will be boys. They commit mistakes).” He even went a step ahead and said if SP comes to power, he will do away with the provision of death penalty for rape. 

Mulayam’s “Boy will be boys” statement, it seems, has encouraged the perpetrators of the crime. 

Consider the Badaun gang-rape and murder case which has shaken the people across the country: Two Dalit cousins, aged 14 and 16, were gang-raped and murdered. 

As if the atrocity was not enough, their bodies were then hung from a tree in a village. Two police constables are among the seven accused. 

Reports also said the local policemen had turned away the family members of the girls when they had gone to seek help. 

More shame followed, this time in Mulayam’s home district Etawah. A rape victim’s mother was brutally thrashed by the father of the man accused of raping her daughter. 

Her crime? The woman had dared to file a complaint against the accused. 

With nearly 2,000 rapes, close to 8,000 abductions and over 3,000 cases of assault on women with intent to outrage their modesty every year, it seems UP is the worst when it comes to safety of women. 

Moreover, many such cases are never reported by the victims fearing social stigma.

Shockingly, the state police has said rapes happen because women go to the fields to relieve themselves. 

But isn’t this the failure of the panchayats and the administration as providing basic amenities like potable water and toilets are their responsibilities? 

And when did stepping out of your house become a crime punishable by rape? Isn’t the state police responsible for the ever increasing number of rape cases?

© 2014 Nasreen Ghani

Published in Daily Mail and Mail Today
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2645471/India-rape-Living-fear-Indias-rape-province.html

Why blame Pakistan for all attacks on India?

Indian consulate in Herat (Source: Google)

ON Friday, heavily armed militants launched a gun attack on the Indian Consulate in Herat, a western city in Afghanistan.

Even as a gun battle raged between the Afghan Army, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and the insurgents, Twitter went abuzz with many of our compatriots pointing fingers at Pakistan. 

Most users who took to the social networking site seemed to already ‘know’ that it was Pakistan attacking the Indian Consulate.

Even news channels weren’t far behind when it came to pinning the blame on Pakistan, as if they had accepted responsibility for the attack in front of world leaders and on TV channels. 

Twitter and other social networking sites give us the opportunity to share our thoughts with the world, but do they also give us the licence to blame a country for any wrongdoing that happens at Indian consulates or with Indian delegates around the world? 

Are we in a state of war with Pakistan? Certainly not! 

With both India and Pakistan being nuclear states, do we really want to take that road?

While here, our PM-elect Narendra Modi is trying to mend relations of the two nations by inviting Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to attend his oath-taking ceremony on May 26, Indians are busy throwing it all away. 

This can be judged by one of the tweets that was posted just after the attack in Afghanistan: “This is Pakistan’s answer to Modi’s invitation”. 

Every Indian has the right to freedom of speech and expression, and we should be thankful for that. 

Imagine living in a country like China with no right to speak freely. People in that country don’t even have the freedom to have as many children as they want. 

But with freedom comes responsibility, and by exploiting freedom, we are doing no favours to anyone, least of all ourselves. 

It is time we stop misusing our rights and give serious thought to what we have and how we put it to use - especially on a forum that is accessible to all.

© 2014 Nasreen Ghani

Published in Daily Mail and Mail Today
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2638906/Pakistan-India-Why-blame-Pakistan-attacks-India.html

It's not all fun and games on social media

SOCIAL

Singer Kailash Kher (Source: Google)

media, a tool which safeguards our freedom of speech, has always seen sharp reactions when it comes to injustice. 

A forum that is associated with free speech has now spiraled out of hand giving rise to a new disturbing trend. 

Priorities have taken a new turn, more and more people now believe in targeting celebrities and anyone can have the 'honour' of being the joke of the day whether it is actor Alok Nath, Anushka Sharma, Neil Nitin Mukesh or singer Kailash Kher. 

While singer Kailash Kher was targeted over his height, Neil Nitin Mukesh was the centre of all jokes because of his name. Actor Alok Nath was taunted for his 'sansakaari' behaviour.

The latest to be shoved onto the bandwagon is actress Anushka Sharma. Ever since the chirpy, young actress made an appearance on Koffee With Karan, Twitter has been abuzz with thousands making fun of her 'pout'. 

So much that Anushka had to step in and give a clarification on Twitter. Some like Alok Nath and Neil Niktin Mukesh might choose to laugh along with the Twitterati.

But it doesn't usually go down well with most people like in the case of Kailash Kher and Anushka. And why would it? Laughing at someone's appearance is harrowing. Pointing at someone's height or lips or their figure - like it or not it - is called bullying. 

I wouldn't want someone to make fun of me even to my face, let alone on Twitter. 

Every now and then we hear that a certain person or a student committed suicide because they were tormented by fellow students over their appearance. 

In the times of social media, people feel content and happy seeing someone be the butt of all jokes. We assume it is harmless, when it isn't.

Would you like it if today Twitter went abuzz with people making fun of your appearance?

© 2014 Nasreen Ghani

Published in Daily Mail and Mail Today
http://www.filmyboxoffice.com/news/whiplash-it-s-not-all-fun-and-games-on-social-media.html

Playing politics over riots

Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh (Source: Google)

Our country is not new to communal riots. Whether it is 1947, 1984, 2002 or 2013, the same thing keeps happening. People are tortured, raped, and murdered.

Children are orphaned and rendered homeless. Refugees lose all their belongings and property and have to start from scratch, in terrible conditions.

Humans are supposed to learn from their mistakes, yet the same thing happens over and over again.

And, equally inevitable, are the opportunistic politicians who turn up in the aftermath.

Former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh played the role to perfection on his 58th birthday, lashing out at SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav for his callous decision to party while the victims of the Muzaffarnagar riots were dying in the camps.

Although Singh did not accuse Mulayam of inciting the riots, the implication was obvious.

We don't say it enough, but it is a fact: most riots are incited by party leaders for political gains.

And the ones that turn up later are simply there to earn brownie points, and maybe polarise the survivors to their own benefit.

Muck is thrown around until it has covered everyone, so that you can't distinguish the polariser from the polarisee.

If it was the Britishers who sowed the seeds of communalism in India, it is our politicians who watered them for their personal gain.

In the mad rush to take advantage of the situation, the lives of the ordinary - the ones who are killed, injured, put out on the streets and generally traumatised - are ignored.

And we ordinary Indians seem to fall for it every time.

And remember, this has nothing to do with religion, no matter what those at the forefront might be saying.

What could be better proof of this than the fact that, as a girl who might find herself in the middle of a riot-hit area, I'm liable to be tortured, raped and even murdered without anyone so much as asking me what god I believe in?

© 2014 Nasreen Ghani

Published in Daily Mail and Mail Today:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2549023/WHIPLASH-Playing-politics-riots.html

The right time for Didi drama

Mamata Banerjee (Source: Google)

We have all seen West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee unleash her vicious temper time and again.

But now appears to be the right time for her to lash out over the increasing number of rape cases happening in the state she governs.

She might want to start by putting a ban on kangaroo courts, which appear to have taken upon themselves to authorise every possible incident of rape in West Bengal.

One of them this week 'sanctioned' the gang-rape of an 18-year-old tribal woman after she was found to be in love with a man from another community.

Her family was first asked to pay an amount of Rs 50,000, and when they said they couldn't the village headman asked the men present to "enjoy the woman". Thirteen men took turns to rape her.

This is not the first time it has happened either.

Instead of moving ahead we are moving towards the medieval era. Unfortunately, expecting Mamata to proceed swiftly against the horrendous act and ensure speedy justice is like wishing for rain in a drought-hit terrain.

In a few days, all 13 accused will be out on bail. The girl will be threatened to take her complaint back, the matter will soon die and no one will care.

The story is the same anywhere and everywhere in India, and even having a woman chief minister known to be feisty doesn't change things.

Even death doesn't ensure you justice. The December 16 gang-rape victim died, but her parents are still fighting for the culprits to get punished. The juvenile will be out soon, as he got just three years in a corrective home. He will be free to rape and murder any girl he wishes to.

This is precisely what the court and the law have been unanimously preparing every girl for.

Why do you think people don't want girls to be born anymore?

© 2014 Nasreen Ghani

Published in Daily Mail and Mail Today:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2546397/WHIPLASH-The-right-time-Didi-drama.html

'Taliban' aadmis at large on Delhi's streets

WITH the increasing incidences of crime in the Capital, the only solution which the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) could come up with was turning its members into vigilantes, unleashing them on the streets of Delhi.

In a recent incident, Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti, accompanied by television crews and AAP volunteers, landed in Khirki Extension alleging that he received 'information' about a sex-drug cartel running from the area. 

He demanded raids be conducted in the houses and all those involved be arrested immediately. 

When the Delhi Police refused, saying they must adhere to due procedure, the politician had a public spat with the police officer. 

An inquiry was also ordered against alleged police inaction. 

In India, as in any civilised country, there are procedures for raiding houses or arresting people. But with Arvind Kejriwal as the Chief Minister, AAP supporters believe they have the power to barge into people's homes and demand arrest, and violate rights of other people. 

In another incident, AAP supporters stopped a car with African women in the night and accused them of prostitution, and demanded they be arrested. 

It is a rule of law that a woman can't be arrested after sunset without prior approval. My question, therefore, to AAP folks: Is this how you protect women in the city? Maybe AAP members have forgotten that reckless vigilantism is dangerous.

AAP volunteers have been feeling that they are morally superior, and they are adopting a 'my way' policy. And everything they do is 'right' to them. 

The AAP's behaviour reminds one of the Taliban, where the so-called supporters and protectors of the people can accuse anyone according to their will. 

The time may not be far off when AAP activists would want to punish people their way. Kejriwal should remember that with great power comes great responsibility - and if this power is not balanced, it may prove fatal for both the party and the people.

© 2014 Nasreen Ghani

Published in Daily Mail and Mail Today:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2542851/WHIPLASH-Taliban-aadmis-large-Delhis-streets.html

The same old message won't stop smokers

(Source: YouTube)

CIGARETTE smoking is injurious to health and may lead to various life-threatening ailments. But do you know what's actually killing and life-threatening at the moment? The anti-smoking advertisements that the audience is forced to watch every time you turn on the television or step into a movie hall.

Every movie - Hollywood or Bollywood - starts with a short film where a very ill Mukesh, "a chain smoker," is dying of oral cancer while the voice in the background talks of how the deadly, black tar gets accumulated in your lungs which "will make you sick… very sick". 

Every time one looks at one of these ads she feels sick, so sick that someday someone might puke on the person sitting next to her.

The situation is no different at home. Whether it is a serial or a feature film, half of the screen is taken up by anti-smoking warnings. This is even more absurd, especially since each film is also preceded by an anti-smoking message with the same information. 

And if, by chance, you are watching a horror flick, then beware! You never know when the next warning might pop up on the screen and give you a heart attack. 

Somehow, the Information & Broadcasting Ministry and the Health Ministry are under the impression that these messages deter youngsters from smoking. 

The day is not far off when warnings will cover the entire screen whenever there is a love-making scene or one featuring alcohol. 

And what about eating junk food? Using abusive language? Fighting random goons? Wielding weapons? Shouldn't we have warnings for these too?

If warnings had stopped people from smoking, those gory visuals on cigarette packs would have done the job.

Instead, all the government is doing with these disclaimers is encouraging people to pirate movies so they don't have to be lectured at while being entertained.

© 2014 Nasreen Ghani

Published in Daily Mail and Mail Today:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2535464/WHIPLASH-The-old-message-wont-stop-smokers.html