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The Bollywood actor’s response to the Kathua and Unnao rapes only takes the shine off his role as brand ambassador of a pro-girl child scheme

Social media rumours turn ordinary folks into killers, pushing the country into a terrifying and tragic sort of lawless medievalism

A right-wing group’s open thuggery on campus and its attempt to stifle free speech is quickly drowned by invoking the bogey of anti-nationals at the door

Independent India has outlawed discrimination based on caste. But there is no law to dismantle the reflexive, colour-coded prejudice that has traditionally accompanied it.

To be sure, the Delhi government has done very little to curb air pollution in the close to two years that it has been in power

The Congress party vice-president must realise that making empty boasts is not the best way of gaining credibility as a leader

To reinvent itself, India’s grand old party needs to look beyond the Gandhi family and back strong, talented leaders from the states, opening up the possibility of them rising all the way to the top

Sexual violence is part of a brutal backlash against women stepping out of their traditional societal roles and asserting their right to choose what they want to do with their lives