Silence eva jayate

July 16, 2012 16:24

This morning Aamir Khan met the PM in a bid to end manual scavenging. The PM asked him to meet Mukul Wasnik who is the minister for Social Justice and Empowerment.
The issue was last week's episode of Satyamev Jayate on untouchability in India. The episode was extremely well-received in urban India since few realise how prevalent the problem still is.

Now, the other story. S Anand writing for the Outlook says Aamir Khan not only deviously censored any discussion of Ambedkar and Reservation, but seemed content to use the 1920s language of high-caste reformers. Read

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