https://priiyanshuraj.github.io/Priyanshu Raj 2026-04-05T22:57:42+05:30 Priyanshu Raj https://priiyanshuraj.github.io/ Jekyll © 2026 Priyanshu Raj /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png Not Poverty Porn - Why Satyajit Ray's Cinema Still Disturbs Us2026-04-03T21:30:00+05:30 2026-04-03T21:30:00+05:30 https://priiyanshuraj.github.io/posts/Why-Satyajit-Ray's-cinema-still-disturbs-us/ Priyanshu Raj In today’s media driven world poverty is not just a fact of life but also something frequenttly being shown through various films, news and social media. This has led us to the term “poverty porn” which is used to criticize content that presents suffering in an exploitative way for attention or profit. While such exploitation does exist, not every portrayal of poverty should be dismissed in thi... When the State Asks for Proof of Your Soul2026-03-27T21:30:00+05:30 2026-03-27T21:30:00+05:30 https://priiyanshuraj.github.io/posts/When-the-State-Asks-for-Proof-of-Your-Soul/ Priyanshu Raj The law is one thing. Justice is another. They are not always the same. You have to understand first what was taken. In 2014, the Supreme Court of India gave the transgender community something that sounded small but was actually enormous: the right to say “I know who I am” without a doctor’s permission. The NALSA judgment said, in so many words, that your gender is not a medical mystery for t...