--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 6 description: Why India should lift the ban on the film about the 2012 Delhi gang rape, why military might doesn't matter in Ukraine and more. canonical: https://time.com/3735318/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-6/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-06T17:01:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:05:11.410Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: Why India should lift the ban on the film about the 2012 Delhi gang rape, & more og:url: https://time.com/3735318/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-6/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas twitter:description: Why India should lift the ban on the film about the 2012 Delhi gang rape, & more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 6 by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 6, 2015 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 6, 2015 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**India has banned a documentary on the 2012 gang rape that rocked the country. That was a huge mistake.**](http://www.ndtv.com/opinion/bjp-government-dont-embarrass-india-744644) By Shashi Tharoor at NDTV **2\.** [**Berkeley decided to give campus departments a real incentive to cut power consumption by charging them directly — and energy use went down.**](http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2015/02/23/one-universitys-attempt-to-reduce-energy-waste-at-work/) By Meredith Fowlie in The Berkeley Blog **3\.** [**Pakistan is helping Afghanistan’s president make peace with the Taliban. Other powers should back him.**](http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21645727-pakistan-helping-afghanistans-president-make-peace-taliban-other-powers-should-back) By the Economist **4\.** [**Ukraine’s military will never be strong enough to beat Russia outright. But it doesn’t have to be.**](http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/04/a-stalemate-ukraine-can-win-russia-war-donetsk-donbass/) By Alexander J. Motyl in Foreign Policy **5\.** [**Micro-bubbles — guided with magnets, deployed with sound waves — could revolutionize the delivery of medicine and even chemotherapy.**](http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/bubble-research-rises-top) By Charvy Narain at the Oxford Science Blog  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3735318/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-6/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3735318/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-6/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 6","datePublished":"2015-03-06T17:01:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:05:11.410Z","description":"Why India should lift the ban on the film about the 2012 Delhi gang rape, why military might doesn't matter in Ukraine and more.","url":"https://time.com/3735318/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-6/","keywords":["Innovation","medicine","Ukraine","russia","Pakistan","Rape","Afghanistan","India","Documentary","Taliban","chemotherapy","Oxford","Berkeley"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3735318/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-6/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 6"}}]}] ```