taboo

The Big Questions on Population: 7 April 2013 - YouTube Adoption seems to be a big taboo among many groups including people who hail from the Indian subcontinent. Why is this? Why are people reluctant to adopt? Why the emphasis on passing on your own genes? When children are adopted, why are...

A general reminder. Debate issues not personalities. At all costs, avoid slurring the morality, character or identity of anyone, or your comments will be deleted. Avoid abusive language. Comments going off into a tanget about veg versus meat will be moved to another thread. Sorry to have to do...

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhaibrown-asian-men-white-women-and-a-taboo-that-must-be-broken-2146251.html I've been goaded into writing this column by the barbs and taunts, by the blame and racist toxins filling my inbox this week. At least...

There are few places on the Grand Trunk Road where you would see a scene like this: young women, in jeans and T-shirts, knocking back their drinks. It is a normal weekday evening. They are relaxing after work alongside men, in an American-style bar. The beer, wine...

Behzti, a play about sex abuse and murder in a Sikh temple, was cancelled in 2004 after the Sikh community stormed the theatre. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters Last Friday, British theatre took a small step in the direction of free speech. At the Soho Theatre, in the heart of London's West...

Taboo or Not Taboo ... That is the Question ...<small>by I.J. SINGH</small> With apologies to Will Shakespeare ... The first response to the title of this essay is predictable: certainly there are no food taboos in Sikhism. This is after...

LONDON: An English playhouse said on Tuesday it would stage a new play about a brothel run by Muslims, just months after violent protests forced it to cancel a black comedy about rape and murder in a fictional Sikh temple...