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Gangrape and after: Why it's difficult to believe the govt

Why is a government willing to spend crores on the treatment of a gangrape victim but is unwilling to talk from the heart to concerned people?

'Hang them' is no solution when 3 out of 4 rapists walk free

The real problem is the drop in rape convictions. The conviction rate in 1990 was 41 percent; in 2000 it was 30 percent; in 2011 it was only 26.6 percent.

Delhi protests: Gap between govt and people is wider than before

The distance between the home ministry’s forbidding walls at North Block and India Gate is less than two kilometres. But the psychological distance is much, much greater.

Abhijit remark: Cong out of touch with the media reality

Something is seriously out of joint in the party’s approach to the media.

Jaya-Modi axis takes on UPA over 'ideological poverty'

If Jayalalithaa stormed out of the NDC meeting for being given too little time and for its "dubious" policies, Modi blasted the government for "ideological poverty".

Is Tewari's media diktat a sign of Cong returning to 1970s?

The I&B Minister's warning to the media gives us a chilling reminder ofo the mid-1970s when the Congress could tolerate no criticism.

Is Jaya-as-PM the proxy call for Modi-as-PM?

While the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister's supporters may want her to become the Prime Minister, Jayalalithaa may harbour ambitions of being the kingmaker.

Are price-rise, graft over-hyped poll issues?

The results of polls over the last two years suggest the electorate and the media are not on the same page.

Dikshit-police spat tells us why governance is failing

The scrap between Sheila Dikshit and the Delhi Police Commissioner exemplifies why governance is failing everywhere: the divorce of power from responsibility and vice-versa.

Not Delhi, real outrage over rapes should be in states

Are the DGPs obliged to act on what Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde says?

Politicians watch out, young India is on the move

India has been tolerating a rotten 'system’ for far too long. Young India can change that.

Eve-teasing, groping and rape – the link we chose to ignore

Why is the focus so much on rape? It is only one of the several forms of harassment women are exposed to in their everyday life.

Mr PM, here's why India will not stay calm anymore

India is no longer interested in promises of small change. It wants the real thing, and the PM's call for calm is nothing more than a diversion

How the Indian system, society works against rape survivors

When a family found that their 8-year-old daughter had been sexually abused, they fought to get justice. But a lifelong struggle for the father and mother has not ended to this day, and in fact, made their lives even worse. Here's their story.

If politicians want security, it's time they paid for it

It is time to withdraw the security cover provided to out-of-work politicians. If they need security they should pay for it, or their party should

Protests no longer about rape, they’re about misgovernance

It’s just that politicians, so unused to listening to (or even acknowledging) the vox populi, the Delhi outrage against the horrific rape has caught the political classes flat-footed, without an answer.

Young India shakes power corridor, want ears to their demands

The brutalities caused in this incident has sparked off a prolonged pent up anger of young India whose voices no one was so far willing to hear.

Why the Modi story is bigger than the Gujarat elections

If the BJP wants to stay relevant in national politics, it has to put Modi in a significant organisational position.

Guess who keeps Gujarat Muslims' riot wounds open...

Muslims in Gujarat today say they want the narrative of eternal suffering, victimhood and persecution to change. If only the ambulance-chasers would let them.

The Modi love-hate fest: A bird's eye-view of opinions

The thing about Modi is that people who hate him can't see anything good in what he does, and those who love him can't hear any evil about him.

How Modi's victory changes the political pitch for 2014

Modi has demonstrated that India's politics is aspirational, and that unlike in 2004, when the Congress succeeded in ambushing the India Shining campaign, 'development' and 'economic reforms' aren't dirty words anymore.

Modi is now clear No 1 in BJP - but challenges loom

The last-surge in Modi's seat count shows that he gambled right and won. He is now clearly the BJP's No 1 PM candidate, and he has his work cut out

In Delhi women get raped, people look on, helplines don't work

According to Delhi Police data, there were 480 reported cases of rape last year and 580 cases of sexual assault this year. Delhi has also seen 10 rapes that have taken place in moving vehicles, in the last 10 years.

Politics can wait: Don't look away from Delhi rape victim

Events over the next 24 hours are crucial not just for politics in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, but for the rape victim's struggle for life. Let's hold her in our hearts, even if our minds are consumed by the political chatter from elsewhere.

There's a wild West Wind blowing. His name is Modi

Like the West Wind, Modi is both Destroyer and Creator - and he has already rustled the dead winter leaves in far-off Delhi.

Delhi rape: It's time men started fighting for women's rights

Next time, when you cheer an unruly group of lumpen men led by the macho hero collectively leching an item-girl on screen, don’t forget that you are encouraging a culture of sexual objectification and domination over women.

Jails or pills: What is the cure to prevent gangrape in India?

Can the solution to curbing the instances of gangrape, like that seen in Delhi, lie in strong punishment? Or is it treatment of mental health problems that can help curb it?

Sonia-Rahul may be planning own TV channel by 2014

Are Sonia Gandhi and the Congress party planning their own TV channel? There are strong reasons to speculate on it

Rehman Malik is a troll, but India is a fool for humouring him

A yearning for peace shouldn't require us to bend over backwards to appease a truculent troll like Rehman Malik. He egregiously abused his hospitality in India, but only because he was given a licence to by our spineless officialdom and a pliant media.

Modi, political Hindutva and the clash of worldviews

The template for the confrontation between the secular forces and the forces of Hindutva has been laid much earlier. Modi would take it forward.