The more damaging development has been the role of the mainstream media in the face of the government attempts to muzzle it.
Run by survivors of acid attacks, the café is part of broader campaigns for women’s access to public places and freedom of expression.
Ironically, the message of scientific temper, modernity, secularism resonated more in India when the rate of literacy was low. Distinctions between science and mythology and mythology and history keep eroding.
Thousands of young men have 'disappeared' in Kashmir and there have been numerous allegations of sexual assaults. But the fight for answers and justice continues.
The State of Israel came into being thirty-one years after the Balfour Declaration, precisely because Zionist Jews were done entrusting their fate to others.
In 2012 new legislation was passed to protect children against sexual abuse. But the gap between the law and ground realities remains large.
Singapore may soon elect its first female president – but the struggle for gender equality in the region is far from being won.
India played a key moral role in international affairs during the anti-colonial struggles and as a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement during the cold war. What happened then?
Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi distills the vital lessons from the past, the complicated legacy of independence and partition, and the enduring relevance of nonviolent resistance.
"Hyper-nationalism and the closing of the mind is also ‘a manifestation of insecurity about one’s place in the world.’”
The cow has highlighted religious, regional, social and cultural differences. Some humans have been killed in the name of the cow.
The Great India Show covers even science in India. It has been blessed by the two governments. Britain is out on a mission to rediscover India.
