Even after all the hoopla around the Suryanelli gangrape case will it change the life of the girl and the family? Will they have a normal life in which they can go out and mix with others without the fear of stigma?
In earlier instances of corruption into defence deals, the Indian establishment has been artful in sabotaging the investigations - even when they were proceeding in overseas jurisdictions. The AgustaWestland investigation could go the same way.
In the absence of a market-savvy approach to arms acquisition, and given the failure to get the domestic private sector involved in defence manufacturing, India seems fated to hurtle from one scandal to another in defence procurements.
So far, the allegations of bribery in the AgustaWestland deal have lacked a 'political dimension'. Now, media revelations establish a tenuous link between the middlemen in the deal and the Congress party.
If the default assumption is that no deal is free from bribery or commission, the defence sector is a goldmine for easy money.
For all of Tyagi's protestations of innocence, his claims so far are far from convincing, particularly when weighed against the body of material in Italian courts that incriminates him.
The deal has started causing tremors in the power corridors. The UPA government would need more substantive arguments than playing on personal integrity of defence minister AK Antony.
In the excitement over the latest expose, let’s not ignore the fact that there are people causing grave breach of individual privacy.
The trouble with clean ministers like AK Antony is that their honesty is used as a shield for hiding the corrupt actions of others. Can someone who allows dishonesty to reign be called honest?
Italian prosecutors have levelled the sensational charge that former Air Chief SP Tyagi was paid bribes to clinch the Agusta Westland copter deal. The facts have been known for long, but the government has been looking the other way.
Italy and defence deals have always been a dangerous combination for the UPA.
The handling of the Kumbh Mela is a matter of pride for those who handle our governance but the stampede at Allahabad station is a sign of how we fail outside it.
Modi unlike Advani remains open to questions. A lot about him is still open to interpretation.
When you're in the business of myth-making, as Arundhati Roy is in the Afzal Guru case, you don't have to constrain yourself with mundane facts.
In the absence of a principled, consistent stand on the death penalty, double-standards in the way that they are carried out reek of politics and bode ill for the future.
Secret hanging and burials in jail have again become a part of the Indian approach for convicted death row terrorists
In the same honest manner in which he allayed the concerns of meddlesome European Union envoys, Modi can seek to tell his side of the story of the 2002 riots to an Indian audience, whose support he seeks to come to become Prime Minister.
Although she speaks fluent Tamil and was a one-time heart-throb, Khushboo is an outsider. At critical moments like this, her nativity or (lack of) dravidian-ness will be called to question.
Other singers gave us songs. But Jagjit Singh gave us the Jagjit Singh sound. Make that the Jagjit Singh experience – silken, soothing, heartfelt, almost evergreen.
By providing constant exposure to caste and religious ‘mobs’ determined to have their voices heard on prime-time news, the media has almost ended up ‘legitimising’ them.
The effect of paid news on unsuspecting readers can be disastrous.
Modi may have hit the headlines with his speech at the SRCC yesterday but is it unwise to consider it beyond a trophy event?
For all his perceived faults, Modi today channels the aspirations of an India that can break free of the politics of caste, class and religion, change its karma, and strive for excellence.
The state is not often not the collaborator, it’s the victim.
If there's one thing that unites Amar, Akbar and Anthony in 2013, it isn't any pride in a shared cultural heritage, but a prickliness about their own faith that sees imagined slights everywhere
Whereas the Congress and the BJP have gone off-message, Kejriwal stands out as a rare politician who is staying on course with his Jan Sabha campaign, intended to empower voters. More power to him.
There are many reasons when the Justice Verma's job remain unfinished. Here's why it needs a permanent mandate.
Unless one sees a more robust demonstration of political will, both from the government and the opposition, the apprehension that the more far-reaching recommendations of the Verma committee report will be diluted will be reinforced.
The BJP should be looking to harness an emerging aspirational sentiment, not a regressive, backward-looking, divisive Hindutva agenda that may not even work as well today as it did in an earlier time.
The government has shown commendable alacrity in getting off the blocks by drafting an ordinance to amend criminal laws to penalise sexual assaults. But the job is still only half done.