https://www.scmp.com/rss/507097/feed Chryselle D’Silva Dias is a freelance writer and journalist currently based in Goa, India. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com A 39-year-old man received three years imprisonment in February 2020 for groping the breasts and attempting to remove the clothes of a 12-year-old girl in Nagpur, a city in western India. On January 19 this year, a Bombay High Court judge ruled that groping a child’s breasts without “skin-to-skin contact” was not sexual assault as defined under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. The judge modified the earlier order, which found the man guilty of groping, kidnapping, wrongful... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3119600/bombay-high-courts-regressive-ruling-groping-heaps-more-trauma?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3119600/bombay-high-courts-regressive-ruling-groping-heaps-more-trauma?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 Jan 2021 01:45:10 +0000 In India, the children of families who do not have smartphones are being left out of online classes as educational institutions across the country continue to remain shut. In Goa, where I am based, many schools are foregoing Zoom sessions or “live” classes where the student has to be present in front of the screen for a fixed time each day. With erratic power supply and patchy network issues, we work instead with PDFs, videos, Google forms and WhatsApp. With the initial novelty of online classes... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3100138/indias-lockdown-digital-divide-how-online-classes-are-excluding?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3100138/indias-lockdown-digital-divide-how-online-classes-are-excluding?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 05 Sep 2020 03:30:10 +0000