{"id":439,"date":"2018-01-21T16:13:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T16:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=439"},"modified":"2018-01-21T16:13:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T16:13:44","slug":"akash-narwala-the-16-year-old-who-thinks-india-should-ban-porn-to-stop-rapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/akash-narwala-the-16-year-old-who-thinks-india-should-ban-porn-to-stop-rapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Akash Narwala: The 16-year-old who thinks India should ban porn to stop rapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211;<strong>\u00a0factordaily.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.7; font-size: 1.25em; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 8px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;\">Akash Narwala is like any other 16-year-old, and yet he is a bit different from his peers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.7; font-size: 1.25em; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 8px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;\">Narwala, who lives in Kota in Rajasthan, has filed a public interest litigation petition with the Supreme Court of India seeking a complete ban on porn sites. That makes him the youngest anti-porn activist in the country, and perhaps in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.7; font-size: 1.25em; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 8px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;\">Like other kids his age, he\u2019s in school in the morning \u2014 he is a Class XI student at Vidhyanjali Academy in the arts stream \u2014 and goes for coaching classes in the evening. When I call him at 7pm in the evening, Narwala has just finished attending his coaching class. \u201cCan we talk once I reach home,\u201d he asks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"perfect-pullquote vcard pullquote-align-full\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #363636; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.5; width: 492.406px; padding: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em 1.5em; float: none; border-left: 5px solid #eeeeee; font-family: SFDisplay-Light;\">\n<blockquote style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; outline: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; background: transparent !important; quotes: none !important;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7; color: #ff6600; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; border: 0px !important; outline: 0px !important; font-size: 0.9em !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; background: transparent !important; quotes: none !important; padding: 5px 0px !important 8px 0px !important; margin: 0px !important 0px !important 0px 0px !important;\">\u201cLook at what is happening in schools and colleges. Look at the children who are in the fourth and fifth standard\u2026 many of these kids start watching porn from that age\u201d\u00a0\u2014 Akash Narwala, anti-porn activist<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.7; font-size: 1.25em; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 8px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;\">Later, during a chat with FactorDaily over the phone, he talks about the problems plaguing India \u2014 the insurgency in Kashmir, the crumbling education system, and crime against women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.7; font-size: 1.25em; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 8px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;\">At the heart of \u201ccrime against women\u201d, Narwala thinks lies addiction to pornography. \u201cLook at what is happening in schools and colleges. Look at the children who are in the fourth and fifth standard\u2026 many of these kids start watching porn from that age,\u201d he tells FactorDaily.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 40px auto 20px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; max-width: 90%; padding: 5px 3px 10px; width: 1427px; position: relative; font-family: SFDisplay-Light; font-size: 14px;\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/akash-narwala-the-16-year-old-who-thinks-india-should-ban-porn-to-stop-rapes\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"5\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211;\u00a0factordaily.com Akash Narwala is like any other 16-year-old, and yet he is a bit different from his peers. Narwala, who lives in Kota in Rajasthan, has filed a public interest litigation petition with the Supreme Court of India seeking a complete ban on porn sites. That makes him the youngest anti-porn activist in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[670,672,673,671],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-akash-narwala","tag-ban-porn","tag-stop-rapes","tag-the-16-year-old"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}