Badaun gang-rape highlights the dire necessity of sanitation and police reforms
(This piece was first published in DNA online.) Yet again, we find ourselves in the midst of a tale of barbaric gang-rape and murder. Two Dalit teenage girls in Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh, on...
View ArticleLines drawn in sand
This piece was first published in Pragati – The Indian National Interest Review A review of Samanth Subramanian’s This Divided Island. Samanth Subramanian’s This Divided Island is not a travelogue or...
View ArticleIndia’s tragedy
Aristotle’s conditions for a good tragedy need to be fulfilled for the severest calamity to get our media’s attention. That is the real tragedy. Aristotle’s Poetics has a substantial definition of the...
View ArticleA Fine Balance
Thoughts after finishing Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance. The older I get, the more I long to read as I did a few years ago. Maybe, I have more distractions now and hence the urgency with which I...
View ArticleThe Amendment to the JJ Act
There is still a long way to go for holistic reforms within the Juvenile Justice setup. The Cabinet recently cleared the Amendment to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of children) Act 2000....
View ArticleA State that counts
Pakistan needs tangible numbers that prove the existence of its citizens. The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics has recently approved a timeline to hold the population and housing census in Pakistan, in...
View ArticleAmendment to the Child Labour Law
The Amendment to the Child Labour Law is not ideal, but its provisions are better than the existing Law. However, there is a need to demand for bigger, more tangible structures and reforms with respect...
View ArticleA case of The Trial
A review of Sadakat Kadri’s The Trial which looks at the history of the criminal trial from the days of Socrates to the trial of OJ Simposon. “Each time a defendant comes to court and contests his or...
View ArticleThe questions over the refugee crisis
How will countries mitigate the contrast between realism and protecting national interests – while allowing for humanitarian assistance and migrant absorption? As of August 2015, over 300,000 refugees...
View ArticleWhen reality resembles satire
Over the last week, much that has happened across India resembled something out of a satirical novel or a dystopian play. The news from JNU and the subsequent court drama took me back to Jonathan...
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