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Questions

So I have questions and I need help finding answers. Questions like - Why is there is a sudden rise in minor voices being heard in mainstream media? Minor voices = marginalized voices. For long Dalits, farmers, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, they have all been part of the wider discourse, but not like this. Never like this. What caused this? What was the tipping point which made the mainstream media sit up and say that this will make the top 10 news stories? What is there in some stories that make it more compelling than the others? What sort of stories are still not getting covered? And for what reasons? For example, we didn’t have so many child abuse cases being reported till that Aamir Khan came and said this happens in our homes. More importantly, he encouraged us to talk about it. So, the newspapers started running more and more stories highlighting them. Yet, we still find it difficult to have a conversation about sex and sexual orientation in a civil manner. C...