Saturday, 25 June 2011 18:25 Soumil Shukla
Imran Khan is on a social activism spree. The actor, after filing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against Maharashtra government’s rule to raise the permissible age of alcohol consumption from 18 to 25, has now lent his voice to the Delhi version of the radical women’s movement ‘Slutwalk’. It has been renamed as ‘Slutwalk- Athaart Besharmi Morcha’ in India and Imran Khan praised the movement and its leader Umang Sabharwal for raising the burning issue of women’s right to dignity, safety and freedom.
Imran has also vowed to connect with the youngsters through a special page on Facebook and plans to mobilise public opinion, especially the youth, to support his endeavour of opposing the new drinking age rule of Maharashtra government.
However, it is a curious fact that all the ‘socially conscious’ Bollywood actors find only such issues which are taken up and mostly affect the urban elites. Imran, why not start a drive to eradicate the farmers indebtedness in the Vidarbha region in Maharashtra? Such an endeavour would serve a larger number of youth than merely filing PILs against a rule which, as everybody knows, will be broken anyway!
http://www.filmitadka.in/201106251102/gossip/imran-supports-slutwalk-athaart-besharmi-morcha.html
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