Whoever said India is intolerant has peanuts for brains. We’re the most tolerant nation in the world and we’re so so tolerant that we tolerate illegal activities being held out in broad daylight, day after day, as if it’s just a part of life. Some of these activities affect us, some don’t and some, we even find convenient. Let’s find out some of the most common illegal things that take place, routinely, without any regard for the law.

Piracy

This is one of those illegal activities that we don’t mind at all. The independent music industry has almost evaporated in India because record labels are not really keen on signing musicians whose albums can be simply copied and sold in the streets without the label getting any money.

Bollywood as well, faces the brunt of the flourishing piracy industry and a studies have shown that the loss incurred by the entertainment industry dues to piracy is about Rs 16,000 crores. The 2008 report has also mentioned the loss of more than 800,000 jobs in the entertainment industry as an effect of piracy.

Girl Child Abortion and Sex Determination

Both are illegal in India but clinics offering the concerned services are in plenty. We like to think that we are past those horrible days when India would consider the girl child as a burden and nip it at the bud but we’re still carrying the tradition and quite proudly at certain parts of the country. The laws against the practice of sex determination had been in implemented in 1994 but the number of female fetus abortions has not dipped.

However, earlier this month a suggestion to make sex determination compulsory was put forward by Union Woman and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi. The idea is to determine the sex, get the fetus registered before birth and track if the child was born or not.