“Shameless militant woman disguised under the name of a journalist …they invite you to a TV channel and you insult at a society of 99 percent Muslims.” - retorts Turkey’s Prime Minister and Presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan during an election rally in the eastern city of Malatya. This vitriolic outburst aimed at Amberin Zaman, who writes for the Economist and the … [Read more...]
The Inside story of how decriminalizing ‘attempt to suicide’ has more harms than good coming out of it
Government has taken a bold step of decriminalizing ‘attempt to suicide’ by removing the Section 309 from statute book. Until now attempting suicide was a criminal offence which led to a fine or an imprisonment of 1 year. This step by the government leaves me in two minds. One is, the government is actually moving forward by removing this act because it looked very … [Read more...]
If banning Uber for one rape is a solution, then why not ban the government itself for number of such cases?
India has been heavily tormented by rapes in the past few years and Delhi has been the capital of it. Last Friday night, a 26 year old woman was been allegedly raped in a taxi by its driver. She used her smartphone to book the cab. The app which she used was that of a US based company Uber. Ever since this incident took place, there has been a huge upsurge in our country to … [Read more...]
Stop Bitching About Reservations. Here’s Why I Think That Reservation In India Is A Good Thing!
Reservation is wrong? Isn’t it? But so is the fact that most of you reading this were born in a well to do family and not in a rickshaw Walla’s family or a poor farmer’s family. Were you? Why should you be given the right to go to a top class school? Just because your father gets a hefty pay check, and a backward caste poor man can’t afford to send his child to such a … [Read more...]
120 farmers committed suicide last month in Maharashtra, here is an answer to what possibly is going wrong
There perhaps could be no better way to divert Government’s attention to ‘their’ plight than suicide, well so they thought. We have grown up with stories of farmers committing suicides that are in abject poverty and are not able to pay debts (The much celebrated, glossy celluloid imagery of “Mother India” rubbed in the fact of feudal lords and debt-ridden farmer suicides with … [Read more...]
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