Author: Sonu M Kothari

We learn a lot from movies as society influences to create a movie and in turn movie influences the crowd.   Movies. Movies get influenced by real-life actions and moments and picture them in movies. There are movie stories that are based on real-life incidents like Surya’s Jai Bhim, Aamir Khan’s Dangal, Constance Wu’s Hustlers, and many more like these.   Where society influences the movies that are made, it works another way around as well. Some movies are so strong enough that leave the audience influenced by some habit or behavior or sometimes even to the extent to change practice from…

Songs were mandatory in movies, but as time changed, the narrative changed, and the way the story keeps you at the edge of the seat music is no more seen as an important criterion for a film’s success.  Songs. Movies change minds and leave us inspired where songs stay in our hearts and touch our souls. Our Indian radios lost to Ceylon Radio only because of songs. They are purely entertainment.   There are movies that flop but the songs of the movie are super hit. Whereas there are also movies that are very successful even without songs. If you take…

The emergency is to functionalize idle coal import-based utilities Following the financial stress and high international prices of coal, the government on Friday have evoked an emergency law. It is a bid to start the generation of many idle power plants running on imported coal. The production power is running low because of stress and high prices. The industry is facing the worst power crisis in the last six years. The officials are arranging supplies for power plants. These pre-summer inventories are on a nine-year low. This is because the power demand is expected to rise at the fastest rate…

The Bill is to be named after the rape-murder victim Disha.  The Central Government of India has law named after Nirbhaya, a victim of gang rape and murder in New Delhi. Similar to this, the state government of Andhra Pradesh proposed a criminal law after the gang-rape murder victim Disha, in Hyderabad, ‘Andhra Pradesh Disha Bill Criminal Law (AP Amendment) Bill, 2019.’  The government at the center has raised objections over the provisions for geo-tagging sexual offenders. It has also objected to giving a specific name to the proposed legislation of the state. In response to this, the state government…

SC directed the petitioners to file responses and the Center to file counter-affidavits.  With talks around the country that Section 124 A, the sedition law, to be scrapped because it acts against its purpose. The section was to give immunity to the government to curb people who propose any danger to the government. But in recent times, it is very clearly seen that the use of the law has changed, completely. Any word is spoken against the government, and a sedition case is charged on the said person.  Petitions challenging the Sedition Law were filed by several journalists, social activists,…

India on its big move to set right a historical wrong by implementing UCC.  With the only vision to be reckoned with, one of the fastest-growing economies, and a progressive country that left behind the shackles from the British colonial time 75 years ago, the country India faces a dichotomy of regressive laws that are still in action and which affects the lives of many in the country.  One of such laws is the Muslim Personal Law.   The Shariat Act, 1937, was brought into force by the British. With time it came to be known as Muslim Personal Law. It…

This rule will give authorities to counter illicit activities.  Indian government has passed a new VPN law. The law demands all VPN service providers to have a record of user data for five years. This rule is necessary when looked upon the security but defeats the purpose of basic tenets of VPN. A number of users have rendered it to be pointless.   Individuals and business associates make use of VPNs. They use it to encrypt their online presence and activities. The law does not only limit to VPN companies but extends to cloud service providers, data centers, and crypto exchanges.…

After a decision of United States’ Supreme Court was leaked, citizens of the State went  ballistic.   The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is all set to overturn a decision made in 1973, according to a leaked document. Roe vs Wade was a historical judgment that legalized abortion in the country. The decision came after an internal discussion.   In 2018, a law that banned abortion if the ‘probable gestational age of unborn human’ was to be more than 15 weeks and on provisions of medical emergencies or severe fetal abnormality, was decided upon by the Supreme Court. A…

On the loudspeaker row, Thackeray has given an Ultimatum.  ­The law-and-order situation was reviewed by the Maharashtra Deputy General of Police (DGP) along with senior officials. The review was done after DGP Rajnish Seth meeting the Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil. This comes before the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray’s deadline of the ultimatum.  The Maharashtra police force is ‘alert and ready’ to handle any law-and-order situation. The entire police force is in action. Thackeray’s speech, in which he had sent warnings to remove loudspeakers atop mosques. The Police have mentioned that the speech given by the MNS…

Are people ready to repeal the Hindu Undivided Law?  The Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI (M) leader, Sitaram Yechury has raised a question. He questioned that since people are talking about the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), are they ready to repeal the Hindu Undivided Family Law (HUF)?  The Party General Secretary, Sitaram on Sunday had responded to the demand put forth. The demand to implement the UCC. This has been raised by several Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) Ministers. Yechury had pointed it out, a day after the Chief Minister of Assam, Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, backed the claim by…