Bodies of Water by VH Leslie review: a pallid, lazy ghost story

Edit The Irish Times 21 May 2016
Her resentment towards men centres on the cruel double standards of Victorian morality ... For the most part its moral universe is straightforward ... Indeed, what is most striking about the novel is the disparity between the gravity of its allusions – the plight of countless women and girls in the Victorian era, their victimisation at the hands of both ......

Bombay dreams: how painter Bhupen Khakahar captured the city spirit

Edit The Guardian 21 May 2016
Naive nude figures, provocative kitsch, vibrant urban scenes … a major exhibition of Khakahar’s paintings at Tate Modern shows why the accountant from Bombay became a liberating force in Indian art ... His face comes back to me ... Twitter ... This is not to ignore that Khakhar also found England “grumpy”, and blamed it for exporting to India a Victorian morality that, in his eyes, replaced a more hospitable environment for his sexuality ... ....

I, Daniel Blake, film review: Ken Loach’s latest feature is melodramatic and intensely moving

Edit The Independent 12 May 2016
Ken Loach’s latest feature (unveiled in competition in Cannes) is a story of an eminently decent man being ground down by an uncaring British welfare state. Scripted by Loach’s regular collaborator Paul Laverty, it is a melodramatic and sometimes very didactic film but also an intensely moving one ... At times, with its references to prostitution, illness and homelessness, it has the air of a Victorian morality fable ... More about....

Opinion: Northern Ireland abortion conviction due to draconian, archaic law

Edit CNN 07 Apr 2016
(CNN)A 21-year-old woman has been convicted in Northern Ireland for using abortion pills to terminate a pregnancy ... JUST WATCHED ... Replay. More Videos ... READ ... It is characterised by mid-Victorian moral norms and medical realities ... Even those who are strongly opposed to abortion on moral or religious grounds very frequently agree that threatening women with prison should be no part of a civilised society's response to unwanted pregnancy ... ....

A Knot that Ties 3 Different Religious Traditions

Edit Huffington Post 29 Mar 2016
Standing at the threshold of his door, a 42-year-old Charan Das passed me a smile. We were standing across him photographing the stall of Hindu deities. There was a poster of Durga Mata sitting on a lion with both her legs on one side, reminiscent of the Victorian morality, during which "ladies" sat "properly" on their horses ... There was an air of festivity in the atmosphere. The entire mohalla was celebrating the final night of Navratri....

Hurry Up Please, It’s Time

Edit Indian Express 27 Mar 2016
Author Kamala Das. The cross-media feeds buzzing around us sometimes produce mashups which suggest that the universe is intelligently designed ... It was a news app, letting me know that Vidya Balan is going to play the bilingual poet in a biopic ... India had unlearned Victorian morality, which insisted that even the legs of dining tables had to be clad to prevent civilisation from turning into one big transgressive sex romp ... ....

The IDS way: Victorian morality, reforming zeal and gross incompetence

Edit The Guardian 20 Mar 2016
Iain Duncan Smith established a raft of welfare reforms none of which will be remembered for the right reasons. @ameliagentleman. Iain Duncan Smith was midway through complicated reforms that he has struggled to make work. In office he displayed a reforming zeal that mixed Victorian morality with a determination to tear up the bureaucratic framework underpinning the Department for Work and Pensions ... Universal Credit ... Bedroom tax ... Twitter ... ....

No gay sex please: BJP MPs stick to "colonial era" 377

Edit DNA India 12 Mar 2016
-->. Tharoor's private member's bill to decriminalise homosexuality rejected again in LS ... While 14 voted in favour of the bill, one member abstained. Tharoor had brought the bill earlier in December last year, but the BJP, which is in a majority in the Lower House, had rejected it ... He said that the House was not allowed to deliberate on a law which was framed by the British rulers on the principles of Victorian morality ... ....

Tharoor says BJP using LS majority to thwart bill on gays

Edit Deccan Herald 11 Mar 2016
Congress member Shashi Tharoor today blamed the BJP for using its "brute majority" in Lok Sabha to thwart his second attempt in three months to introduce a private member's bill to decriminalise homosexuality ... The Congress member regretted that the House was not allowed to deliberate on a law which was framed by the British rulers on the principles of Victorian morality ... One member abstained from voting ... ....

BJP using LS majority to thwart bill on gays: Shashi Tharoor

Edit The Times of India 11 Mar 2016
NEW DELHI. Congress member Shashi Tharoor today blamed the BJP for using its "brute majority" in Lok Sabha to thwart his second attempt in three months to introduce a private member's bill to decriminalise homosexuality ... The Congress member regretted that the House was not allowed to deliberate on a law which was framed by the British rulers on the principles of Victorian morality ... One member abstained from voting ... ....

Lok Sabha members press for law to end discrimination against transgenders

Edit DNA India 11 Mar 2016
-->. Several members from different political parties highlighted the need for a law to end discrimination against transgender people in our society ... "It is unfortunate that they are being discriminated, tortured and not treated well by the society...they should be provided legal protection," he added ... Tharoor regretted that the country is saddled with colonial era laws which reflected Victorian morality ... ....

Jackie’s ‘flirty fiction’ was aimed at younger girls

Edit The Guardian 09 Mar 2016
Jackie’s stories may appear to show “Victorianmorality (How Jackie gave shape to fantasies for a generation, 5 March) if you are looking for sexual encounters in its pages, but it was really a pre-teen and early teen magazine, for a younger audience than any Marplan readership survey would suggest ... ....

Indian Penal Change

Edit Indian Express 08 Mar 2016
The Supreme Court of India. The promise of criminal law as an instrument of safety is matched only by its power to destroy. It is arguably the most direct expression of the relationship between a state and its citizens ... In 1860, the IPC was certainly ahead of the times but has been unable to keep pace since then ... Justice T.R ... Sexual offences under the code reveal patriarchal values and Victorian morality ... ....
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