09 Mar 2015

NDTV on DStv goes dark after rape doccie ban

Thinus Ferreira

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India's Daughters (Photo Supplied)

Cape Town – On Sunday night, the Indian news channel NDTV (DStv 413) seen in South Africa on MultiChoice's DStv suddenly went dark in an on-air protest over being banned and censored from showing a documentary about rape.

NDTV, banned from showing the documentary India's Daughters, decided to show the static words: NDTV India's Daughters for a full hour on the channel together with an oil wicker lamp used in Hindu ceremonies. Running underneath it was the text of people's reactions who have seen it already on the internet, as well as the words: "One rape every 20 minutes".

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