{"id":240218,"date":"2023-04-29T19:48:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T14:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=240218"},"modified":"2023-05-02T16:19:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T10:49:30","slug":"wrestling-injustice-protests-are-integral-to-a-democracy-and-vital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wrestling-injustice-protests-are-integral-to-a-democracy-and-vital\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling Injustice &#8211; Protests are integral to a democracy \u2013 and vital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>S<\/strong><strong>ource<\/strong>: The post is based on the article <b>\u201cWrestling Injustice &#8211; Protests are integral to a democracy \u2013 and vital\u201d <\/b>published in <b>The Times of India <\/b>on\u00a0<strong>29<\/strong><b>th April 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus<\/strong>: GS2- Vulnerable sections of the population.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: Issues related to women sports persons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: The top national and international-level wrestlers are once again protesting to express their dissatisfaction with the sexual harassment complaints from women players.<\/p>\n<h2>About the issue<\/h2>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read here: <a title=\"Wrestlers in SC against Delhi Police: What the law says about filing of FIR in sexual harassment cases\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wrestlers-in-sc-against-delhi-police-what-the-law-says-about-filing-of-fir-in-sexual-harassment-cases\/\">Wrestlers in SC against Delhi Police: What the law says about filing of FIR in sexual harassment cases<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>What does the wrestlers\u2019 protest say about power and politics in India?<\/h2>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more: <a title=\"What the wrestlers\u2019 protest says about power and politics in India\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-the-wrestlers-protest-says-about-power-and-politics-in-india\/\">What the wrestlers\u2019 protest says about power and politics in India<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Are protests legal in India?<\/h2>\n<p>Protests are inherent to democracy. No grievance redressal mechanism can be perfect. In a democratic framework, a protest is the default option to express deep dissatisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>A protest is a symptom of an underlying problem. It also acts as a pressure relief valve.<\/p>\n<h2>What should be done?<\/h2>\n<p>Indian Olympic Association president PT Usha, said that the wrestlers protesting in public are sullying the image of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Protests don\u2019t affect a country\u2019s image. So, the IOA should make a sincere effort to understand wrestlers&#8217; fear and address the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cWrestling Injustice &#8211; Protests are integral to a democracy \u2013 and vital\u201d published in The Times of India on\u00a029th April 2023. Syllabus: GS2- Vulnerable sections of the population. Relevance: Issues related to women sports persons. News: The top national and international-level wrestlers are once again protesting to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wrestling-injustice-protests-are-integral-to-a-democracy-and-vital\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wrestling Injustice &#8211; Protests are integral to a democracy \u2013 and vital<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,7281,10496],"class_list":["post-240218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-right-to-protest","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704908944},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}