Highlighting the Problems of Common man in India

In our endeavor to give the common man a voice, Team Purdafash would like to give Vikas Pandey - one of our guests an opportunity to express what he feels about an incident that happened recently in Bihar. Here is what he wrote: On Tuesday night, larger than life anchors on all the leading channels (and each of them claims to be one) were busy discussing and questioning the brutal and inhumane behavior of the Bihar police. A guest on a TV show, veteran TV journalist Nalini singh questioned media's role in assuming responsibility for some of this. There was palpable silence for five ... Read Full Story

Recently we at Purdafash were approached by a DU student who having gone to buy designer clothes ended up finding out that they were crafted by child laborers working long hours, under inhumane conditions and at the end of the day were paid a pittance. Our guest was so appalled that she decided to never go for designer clothes again. This incident set us thinking on two key issues: Firstly- Is elimination of child labor a distant dream? Secondly- How far are we willing to go personally to right a wrong if it affects us personally? While on the first issue, we discovered that ... Read Full Story

As the stock market crosses the 15,000 mark and is all set to touch the 16,000 mark pretty soon, we at Purdafash received a story from one of our CJs which highlighted how the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) changed the farmers and traders into full time speculators to a stage where today they can’t let go of the MCX terminal even if they want to. This story set us thinking in a way that we had never thought before. Since a couple of us have dabbled at the stock exchange, the question was all the more personal and hence made our discussions a lot ... Read Full Story

As the whole nation goes into a deep tizzy over the murder of Adnan by people he met on orkut, we at Purdafash received reports of Orkut being used to stalk a young girl and harass her family. And this at a time when we were extensively using orkut to contact people for content and get in touch with old contacts, some dating back to our school days so that we can get our venture up and flying. This chain of events set us thinking on what role do Orkut and other social networking sites play in our lives- are they a boon or ... Read Full Story

January ,2006: Rang De Basanti wakes up a generation that was widely written off as “too materialistic” and “too self centered” by everyone around them. March and August,2006: The common man, led by the Indian youth, takes to the streets to demand justice to murderers of Jessica Lall and Priyadarshini Mattoo and makes the courts sit up and take notice of them. The generation realizes the “explosive power” within. All that is needed for a revolution to happen is a spark…..   August 24, 2007: Purdafash arrives Let the Revolution Begin !! Purdaf as h .com is launched to highlight the problems of the ... Read Full Story