The court was hearing a petition by Children's Film Society (CFS) seeking directions to the CBFC to hear its plea to issue U certificate to its film 'Chidiakhana.'
Skeletal remains of several human bodies have been found behind the premises of the SKMCH in Muzaffarpur that is seeing an alarming number of deaths in children due to encephalitis.
In India, or maybe everywhere else too, single parents are taboo. Single mothers even more so, because, our society, however classy, and advanced it might pretend to have become, still hasn't adjusted to the idea of a woman existing without being validated by a man.
It is time that attention is drawn towards three disturbing trends in child development, especially relating to the most vulnerable children in our society - orphans, runaways, children of the indigent and children of marginalized sections of society.