We The People

In a shocking crime in the national capital, a 16-year-old girl was stabbed 22 times on the middle of a busy street by her jilted lover as people watched on - but nobody helped. This is not the first time that bystanders have watched a crime unfold, but done nothing - and it seems only to be getting worse. On We The People, we ask what is this societal apathy? And why is India afflicted by a particularly terrible case of bystander syndrome?

The Karnataka elections were one of the major elections ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. This election also stands out because of the dismal performance and participation of women. The BJP fielded only 12 women candidates and there were only 11 women candidates from Congress. Why are women missing in the landmark Karnataka elections?

The Supreme Court said this week that it can dissolve a marriage in certain circumstances, including on the grounds of irretrievable breakdown of relations, and do away with the mandatory six-month waiting period. What exactly does this new verdict change? We get a Reality Check.

Over 2,500 food delivery workers from Zomato-owned Blinkit have been on strike across India. The delivery agents are protesting after the company changed the basis on which they will get paid, and how much they will get paid. They don't have adequate rights and protections under Indian labour laws. Do we need a course correction? According to the Niti Aayog there are over 7.7 million gig workers in India but does anyone have their back?

Gangster Atiq Ahmed was shot dead along with his brother on live television on Saturday while police were escorting them for a medical check-up in Uttar Pradesh. There have been numerous instances of encounters in Maharashtra and Punjab. What does this say about us as a country and society? What does this mean for us as a society?  

India has 3,167 tigers, according to the latest census released today. Let's go behind the numbers with India's most credible conservationists.

A letter co-signed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and various other tech giants has demanded a six-month pause in artificial intelligence research - citing under-researched AI as a 'threat to humanity'. We The People sifts the fact from the fiction and asks - is artificial intelligence a way to elevate or destroy the world?  

A defamation, conviction and disqualification has taken the world of Indian politics by storm. But it also raises a key question on where does one draw the line between legalities and freedom of speech. Does criticism of the ones in power means censorship and sedition? On We The People, we take on the question: is criticism equal to defamation? And if so, where do we draw the line?

It's a parent's worst nightmare. Having your child taken away from you. Sending your child to school but he doesn't return and you find out that you've been deemed an unfit parent and can't see him again. Now imagine this happening to you while you are abroad. In a country where you don't speak the language or understand the systems and processes and as you try to fight the bureaucracy your child is getting older by the day, apart from you. That's the story of the Rani Mukherjee starrer 'Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway' that just released globally this Friday. Friday. The film focuses on the diplomatic row between India and Norway in 2011, sheds light on cases where Indian parents lose custody of their children over cultural differences in their upbringing. The movie also has parallels to the ongoing dispute involving a child in Germany.

India has scored significant gains in various development parameters including economic growth, women's education, and reducing fertility rates. Yet, women participation in the labor force remains amongst the lowest in the world. Studies suggest that unpaid domestic work of women amounts to 7.5% of the country's GDP. On We The People, we discuss whether it is time to start compensating women for unpaid care work.

On 'We The People', we take a look at the horrifying murder of Nikki Yadav in Delhi. Coming on the heels of the murder of Shraddha Walkar, such incidents raise key questions on society, violence against women in India and patriarchy.

A young domestic help was rescued from her employer's house in Gurugram - where she suffered horrific abuse over the last few months. The young girl,  from Jharkhand, was found with wounds all over her body. However, this is not the first such case of abuse on domestic workers. On We The People, we discuss what can be done to stop such case from happening again.

ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) has taken the world of artificial intelligence by storm. From helping users with their university assignments to writing a poem, ChatGPT by Microsoft-backed OpenAI can do it all. While some champions of artificial intelligence hail it as the next big thing, experts have raised fears that systems used by such apps could be misused for plagiarism, fraud, and spreading misinformation or even fake news. On We The People, we discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly sides of ChatGPT. Watch now.

2023 has started off on the right note for India's film industry. The past week has been a turning point for a beleaguered film industry. Shah Rukh Khan starrer 'Pathaan' made history by becoming the highest-grossing movie in the world on day one. From 'Boycott' to 'Blackout' to 'Blockbuster' - has the audience spoken?

The silence of the women who are a part of the sports industry has finally broken. On January 18, Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik, two of India's most esteemed women wrestlers, have come forth with accusations of harassment against BJP MP and Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) head Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

On November 26, on a New York to New Delhi Air India flight, a Mumbai-based passenger, under the influence of excessive alcohol   unzipped his pants and urinated on an elderly woman. What followed after -- the crew response and handling of the matter left much to be desired. What are the lessons to be learnt from this unseemly episode?

On Christmas eve, news broke that a 20-year-old Tunisha Sharma, with a promising acting career ahead of her allegedly died by suicide on the sets of her show 'Ali Baba: Dastaan-E-Kabul'. She was just 20 and left everyone in shock by taking the drastic step of ending her life. Hours after her death, her co-star and former boyfriend Sheezan Khan was arrested in an abetment to suicide case and and is being questioned to ascertain exactly what happened on the set of the show. Tunisha was reportedly depressed over the breakup with her boyfriend. The conversation in mainstream media and social media somehow never touched on mental health at all. Why? What are we so afraid of that we, as a society, refuse to take mental health awareness seriously?

The acid attack on a 17-year-old girl in Delhi, who is battling burn injuries in hospital, has put the focus back on the scourge of a corrosive, gendered violence and the plight of the survivors. In 2013, the Supreme Court banned over-the-counter sale of acid across India and acid attacks were criminalised. Yet, here we are today, clearly a stronger law does not always act as a deterrent?

Some BJP politicians are planning to introduce private members' population control bills in Parliament's Monsoon Session on the heels of BJP leaders in Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Assam suggesting the need to impose population control measures. While India needs to put a check on its population growth, is this the solution? Are aggressive steps needed to control population required for India? And is this the solution? Do we need penal action or do we need better governance, education and more access to contraception?

The arrest of two men for stalking and sexually harassing a 24-year-old South Korean YouTuber in Mumbai is not an isolated incident. That they dared to do so in public is a telling commentary on the state of affairs in our cities. Is it the Indian man instead of its women who need moral policing?