Liberal Muslims too need to speak out strongly against the MIM brand of politics. Only an alliance between Hindu and Muslim liberals can isolate noisy extremists from both communities. The silent majority can't remain silent any longer.
What does the booby trapping of CRPF jawan's bodies mean for India's fight against its most serious internal security threat?
The disregard of our establishment to the issue, that makes our country look like a shit-hole to the rest of the world, is not new: manual scavenging has been banned in India by law for 19 years now, but the country cannot live without this vulgarity.
Should the woman who pushed Sunando Sen in front of a subway train in New York because she hated Hindus and Muslims be charged with a hate crime? The debate over hate speech and hate crimes gets complicated.
The fathers of Malala and the Delhi gang rape victim may be oceans and worlds apart, but what they share in common is far greater: an invaluable love for their girl child.
Manmohan Singh's Pakistan appeasement strategy is not going to work. It hasn't worked in the past, and it is not working now
The BJP is hoping to polarise voters over the MLA's hate speech, while MIM is hoping to get sympathy over what they say is discrimination. The Congress stands to lose the most.
This is the most serious provocation by Pakistan since the 26/11 Mumbai carnage of November 2008 and has the potential of putting Indo-Pak ties back into the deep freeze. Whatever response the UPA government comes up with, the people’s anger would be hard to ignore.
The PM wants enlightened debate to decide on the complex issue of GM crop to boost agricultural yield. But neither independent science nor simple economics supports his faith in a transgenic miracle.
What this episode will do is to help MIM polarise the Muslim vote more.
There are indications that India has matured over the last one decade. A few leaders cannot be allowed to reverse the process.
In about a year, this is the second death sentence for rape in the state.
With this long-pending announcement, what can be safely concluded is that his older son and Union Minister MK Alagiri has been talked out of his ambition for the top post in the party.
The SC judgment has effectively made judges the deciding factor in administrative actions like the appointment of the Lokayukta, says Arun Jaitley
The YSR Congress understandably has kept mum on the controversy. The Telugu Desam has only made a feeble token condemnation.
We need a united social disapproval and censure for all acts of indecency (small or big) to work towards reducing their occurrence.
After holding the Gujarat Governor's act as unlawful, the SC still went ahead and upheld her appointment of the Lokayukta. This can only confuse future issues between Governor and elected authorities
New Delhi, the city of many revolutions, has turned into the cauldron of growing aspirations.
Her latest response was quick, strong and unequivocal; but does it have an all-encompassing logic of protecting women and preventing violence against them?
The SC's verdict upholding the appointment of a Lokayukta selected by the Governor is a huge setback for Modi.
The lessons from Bogota's fight against crime is this: zero-tolerance ought to begin not at rape, but even earlier at minor sexual harassment.
The protest in Delhi over the macabre gangrape and murder of a young girl is overwhelming. But to believe that it is going to be the real wave that will change India because the country’s youth are riding it, is a bit too optimistic.
Yo Yo Honey Singh's songs have been misogyny at its crudest. But it's Bollywood’s warm embrace of him that has made an obscure underground rapper into a bona fide playback star. That's the real problem.
It’s clear that even after this gang rape our politicians have not gotten the basic lesson. Rape is rape. And no means no. There’s no dress code for rape. There is no curfew hour. No character certificate is needed.
The Delhi rape victim's death should open our eyes to our real challenges: its not about growth, but justice as well. We should be willing to sacrifice some growth in the short run to ensure delivery of justice.
Revealing about how jurisprudence is sometimes the closet that hides political skeletons.
Can the Delhi police really be faulted with their handling of the horrific gangrape in Delhi?
Tough laws won't change our attitudes nor completely stop crime when some perpetrators see little hope in life anyway and use rape not just as an opportunity to satisfy lust but also perhaps an opportunity to explode in anger at a perceived slight.
Politicians from Sonia downwards have been sounding sincere and contrite after the death of the Delhi rape victim. But the reality can only be judged by what they do next
In all the stories about the 23-year old rape victim as braveheart, it’s worth remembering this. She had no intention to be a braveheart. She was not planning to be an activist or a symbol. She just wanted to go home.