HISTORY TV18 announces second season of 'VICE'

Following the creation of world-renowned Vice Magazine, Shane Smith launched VICE, a documentary TV-series, to cover the kinds of stories often overlooked by mainstream media outlets. HISTORY TV18 renews this series for a second season of fearless and radical reporting on Friday, 19th September, 2014 at 9PM.

Smith and his expanded team of correspondents including Thomas Morton, Suroosh Alvi, Vikram Gandhi and others, continue to deliver hard-hitting stories from some of the most dangerous places on earth. While Season 1 saw political assassinations in the Philippines, escapes, deadly borders including India-Pakistan and China's ghost towns, Season 2 investigates a wide range of topics with Vice journalists visiting Iran, Afghanistan, Greenland and various countries in North Africa as they delve into the Arab Spring.

In the Season 2 premiere of VICE, Gelareh Kiazand travels to India following the 2012 gang rape on a Delhi bus, which focused international attention on India’s rampant rape issue. Inept law enforcement, the 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, galvanized a group of rural women into the Gulabi Gang (Pink Gang), to combat the injustice of sexual assault. Gelareh Kiazand heads to rural India to investigate the issue and embed with this revolutionary gang.

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

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