‘Tis a ‘Ban Her’! season in Indian film industry. Small but powerful coteries of film producers are holding lives and careers of female actors to ransom. Behave or be banned, and don’t question our logic seems to be the diktat says Sajana Jayaraj

With "Move On" as a tagline, this new Kannada movie seems to be showing the industry a new way ahead with a fresh take on life, love and women. Padmalatha Ravi reviews.

19-year-old Sengodi  doused herself with petrol to protest death sentence. She died within two hours. Most of the mainstream media downplayed her act of protest. Some trivialised it by saying she killed herself over a love affair. Is political protest a male prerogative? Geeta Charusivam, introduces us to Sengodi, and questions the media’s bias.

Most of you must have read of Sengodi’s self immolation in front of Kancheepuram Taluk office on 28th August 2011. She was a long standing member of Makkal Mandram and lived in its ‘‘Commune’ ’ with us all.

The full text of the letter Irom Sharmila wrote to Anna Hazare in support of his anti-corruption hungerstrike.

23 August 2011, Tuesday

10.27am, Security Ward, JN Hospital

Respected Anna,

I whole heartedly welcome your invitation to join the anti corruption rally
you are crusading. And yet I would like you to be convinced of the reality

Toto Funds the Arts (TFA) invites submissions for its 2012 annual arts awards for young musicians/bands, writers and photographers. There are six awards to be won — one for music (Rs 50,000), two for photography (Rs 25,000 each), two for creative writing in English (Rs 25,000 each) and one for creative writing in Kannada (Rs 25,000).

The photography awards are being given in partnership with TASVEER and the writing awards (English) are being supported by Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions.

Slut Walk was renamed Besharmi Morcha but the contextualisation ended there. The organisers of the morcha have not bothered to see if this really works in Indian context. How about we take on more pressing issues instead, asks Rashmi  Vallabhajosyula.

To all my friends going rah-rah on Slut Walk aka Besharmi Morcha, in Bhopal and New Delhi, may your voices be loud, your posters hard- hitting, may your morcha be successful and may you get all the media coverage you can possibly get.  But count me out.

In the ad world everything is sold based on sex. But a recent mobile network advertisement is asking people to give up sex. Padmalatha Ravi muses if this new idea has any connections to reality.

And so we have a new idea, power cuts are leading to population explosion! This mobile network's ads which were once refreshing and entertaining have gone too far this time. Even the self deprecating dig at Abhishek Bacchan’s own productivity on the family front doesn’t cut it.