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BBC Asian Network's Big Debate: Qasa Alom

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02/05/2017

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Qasa asks, can India's attitude towards domestic violence be taken seriously?

Qasa asks, can India's attitude towards domestic violence be taken seriously? Writer Vaseem Khan joins Qasa to talk about his book 'The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star'.

Qasa asks: Can India's attitude towards domestic violence be taken seriously? British writer Vaseem Khan joins Qasa to talk about his latest book 'The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star'. Also, Jessica Mayberry, the founder of Video Volunteers, discusses how the charity is helping those living in rural India to become journalists so they can report on stories that matter to them. Law student Nikhil Subbiah has just won the Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship, which is paying for him to spend six weeks in India and Sri Lanka this summer. He talks to Qasa about how tea pickers face discrimination there.

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