Lalita Iyer

 SOME MORE THOUGHTS ON THE SUPREME COURT ORDER So, what the bench at the Supreme Court, who passed the recent order saying `sex work' is a `profession', is thinking is that there is `dignity' in selling your body and adult women should be allowed to go about doing their job. And since they will not have an agent, also popularly known as pimp, they will go about in public calling out to men and exhibiting their ware, since that is the way this job is done.  What the Supreme Court is saying is to arrest all pimps, brothel owners or anybody making money out of the body of a woman. Which was always the case. There was no pimp or brothel owner who put up a board or carried a visiting card on himself. It was and is always word of mouth and there is a chain of control of these people. Which is one of the reason that it takes a very long time to convince the girl to go to court against them.  The terrorising of the girl in court is another story. Wonder if the judges know about a...

PEOPLE TALK SO MUCH Makes me wonder why some people talk like that from public podiums. Once the Gyavaapi news happened there have been a number of jokes on the digging and some of them actually make you smile. But when the BJP leader like Bandi Sanjay Kumar, an MP from Karimnagar, and also the state president of the BJP in Telangana, talks and tries to provoke, it is not a healthy trend. On his Ekta yatra, which is commendable considering the heat, he said "Dig all mosques to find Shiva Lingas,,,,," He also added some more to the statement which is not worth quoting here. What upset me more, personally, was that PM Narendra Modi did not pull him up or even mention it in the passing. Of course he was busy trying to end family rule with his speech. And since the CM KCR was once again avoiding meeting the PM, the entire focus of the news changed.  Surprisingly there was no scathing reply from either Owaisi brothers.  I am only worried that between the CM and his son while we ar...