NEW DELHI: More than a year after a lawyer filed a petition seeking ban on Santa-Banta jokes on Sikhs, now it’s the South Indians students who are claiming to be hurt by the content of a weekly tabloid published by Delhi University students.
Three students of DU law faculty—Shashi Chaurasia, Vikas Bhaskar and Mohit Kumar Gupta—have objected to the column titled, ‘Sex Amma’, published in DU Beat, a weekly tabloid and website run by a group of students of the university-affiliated colleges.
Claiming that the phrases used in the column have hurt the sentiments of the south Indian community, they have filed a complaint against the publication at the Maurice Nagar police station. They have also objected to the way motherly figure Amma has been projected wearing saree revealing her undergarments in a caricature.
“Calling someone Idli, Dosa is a racial attack on a community,” said Aishwarya, a DU student, who is a Tamilian.
Students also filed a complaint with Delhi Commission for Women that has issued notices to DU, DCP west and DCP cyber crime, seeking probe. A member of DU Beat told The Sunday Standard, “We don’t mean harm to any community. It’s just a way to present things in a humorous way.”