Static society, shifting identities: Taboos and the power of Bollywood
The misfortune of having a divine body In India dicrimination has many different names and faces. By Vinamrata Chaturvedi
Popular Indian actor Ayushmann Khurrana, who stars in the film Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan as a young man bucking social disapproval to be with his beloved a time-tested Bollywood plotline, except the object of his affection is male.
Conflicts often smolder in secret. Those affected are too isolated to raise their voices, mainstream society does not want to hear about it, and often these groups are persecuted. The media frequently functions as the mouthpiece of the majority opinion, thereby cementing discrimination against these groups or individuals. But discrimination has its price. It is paid by the people living in conflict with more powerful social groups or with the state. These people are often denied the right to human dignity, which is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of