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'You Are not Your Marks!'

Why are exams so stressful in India?, Dan Mei - the online homoerotic fiction read by young women in Asia, and the campaigners in Tunisia wearing miniskirts as a protest.

Your exam results should not define your future - that is the message going viral in India this week, as millions of school students brace themselves for results day. We talk to its author, the comedian Vir Das. We find out why a genre of gay erotic fiction that is hugely popular among teenage girls called Dan Mei has been banned in Vietnam. And, we hear from the campaigners who are wearing miniskirts as a protest in Tunisia, in reaction to a Facebook campaign 'Be a man and veil your women', which is spreading in the Arab world.

Joining Mike Wendling in the studio, Vikas Pandey @´óÏó´«Ã½Vikas, Nader Ibrahim @nader_sm, and Ly Truong @bbcvietnamese

(Photo:Indian school children prepare for their exams. Credit: Raveendran/Getty Images)

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