Moral policing has been a heated topic of discussion over the past few weeks in across all news channels of the country. Though an old topic, but fresh debate was triggered when Mumbai Police, right before Independence Day raided beach resorts across the city and booked couples for indecent behaviour. To be specific, according to the Indian Express, the police registered 54 cases under the Maharashtra (Bombay) Police Act and 13 couples were specifically booked for indecent behaviour. The media, after this incident, immediately went haywire. Prominent anchors and panellists talked about how there has been a breach of ‘Right to Liberty’ as guaranteed by the Constitution and how authorities have breached into the personal space of an individual. This debate was also a succession of the recently invoked and evoked Porn Ban, where in the state decided to curtail what we wanted to see and what not. The entire debate here can be pegged around two broad ideas, the idea of indecency ...

Sometime back, the debate on moral policing stormed the nation when Mumbai police raided hotels and caught couples from hotel rooms. Almost every news channel aired programs where in they discussed ‘right to liberty’ and ‘right to freedom’. Just a few weeks after this incident, a news channel in Assam decided to air a piece on girls wearing shorts in Guwahati. The news story ‘Girls wearing Shorts in Guwahati’ by a local news channel of Assam, Pratidin Times came into highlight in the social media on Wednesday, obviously due to wrong reasons. Embedded below is video of the news piece followed by the English translation of the entire story. Watch the video, look at how the camera is being used, where is it being focused and what the story implies. Focus on the use of language and the use of the word ‘culture’ to defend the lead of the story. Once done, just ask a question, will you allow someone of record you on a tape, without your consent, and then telecast it in the P...