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?
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.
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.
Something is seriously out of joint in the party’s approach to the media.
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".
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.
While the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister's supporters may want her to become the Prime Minister, Jayalalithaa may harbour ambitions of being the kingmaker.
The results of polls over the last two years suggest the electorate and the media are not on the same page.
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.
Are the DGPs obliged to act on what Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde says?
India has been tolerating a rotten 'system’ for far too long. Young India can change that.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
If the BJP wants to stay relevant in national politics, it has to put Modi in a significant organisational position.
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Like the West Wind, Modi is both Destroyer and Creator - and he has already rustled the dead winter leaves in far-off Delhi.
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.
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?
Are Sonia Gandhi and the Congress party planning their own TV channel? There are strong reasons to speculate on it
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.
The template for the confrontation between the secular forces and the forces of Hindutva has been laid much earlier. Modi would take it forward.