History TV18 brings back untold stories with second season of 'Vice'

Covering hard-hitting stories, the new season travels to India following the 2012 gang rape on a Delhi bus. It will be aired on the channel from September 19

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Mumbai | September 17, 2014

Following the creation of Vice magazine, Shane Smith launched Vice on TV in the form of a documentary TV series to cover stories that are often overlooked by mainstream media outlets. History TV18 has renewed this series for a second season of fearless and radical reporting, beginning September 19, at 9 PM.

Smith and his expanded team of correspondents including Thomas Morton, Suroosh Alvi and Vikram Gandhi continue to deliver hard-hitting stories from some of the most dangerous places on earth. While the first season saw political assassinations in the Philippines, escapes, deadly borders including India-Pakistan and China's ghost towns, the second season investigates a wide range of topics with Vice journalists visiting Iran, Afghanistan, Greenland and countries in North Africa, as they delve into the Arab Spring.

In the new season, Gelareh Kiazand travels to India following the 2012 gang rape on a Delhi bus, which brought in international attention on India's rampant rape issue. Inept law enforcement, social stigma associated with rape and a patriarchal social structure have allowed sexual assaults to plague Indian women. Delhi's police department has vowed to hire more female officers and set up a help desk, but these measures are hardly a solution. Rapes in Delhi doubled in 2013, and as bad as it is in Delhi, the Indian countryside is even worse. Instead of investigating rape cases, rural police officers often ignore victims and their families. But one woman, Sampat Pal, galvanised a group of rural women into the 'Gulabi Gang' (Pink Gang), to combat the injustice of sexual assault. Kiazand heads to rural India to investigate the issue.

This series smashes barriers of decorum to cover cutting-edge stories worldwide. It showcases need-of-the-hour issues and brings about a unique perspective to the form occurrences will take in the future.

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