The Gangrapes of Gurgaon

These crimes are a wake-up call - and a pointer to how skewed development is hurting India

The Gangrapes of Gurgaon

"While one part of Gurgaon got sewn into a global economy, another part remained cloistered in rural hamlets, awash suddenly in big money with no sensitization about what caused its arrival."

-The Times of India, March 16, 2012

Jairam Ramesh advises NGO leader to stay away from politics

Times View - Can't farewell social work
Counter View - Activists are not politicians


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-The Times of India, March 13, 2012

Readymoney vs Parsimoney

Poor little rich Parsis redefine poverty line and purchasing power parity

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-The Times of India, March 8, 2012

How To Be A Winner

Bihar's done well on the growth front, now it must further speed up development

How To Be A Winner

-The Times of India, March 6, 2012

Check the criminality

"If the cruelly apathetic handling by officers of the Kolkata police of a serious complaint brought before them by a woman of having been raped and assaulted in the heart of the city wasn't bad enough, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's misinformed or hubristic attempt to dismiss her charge as a story that was cooked up to malign her government, was even worse. "

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorial : Check the criminality: Such atrocious remarks might be driven by political expediency but they are typical of how sections of Indian society continue to view crimes against women.

Ms Banerjee and her team need to do some serious introspection with regard to the State government's will, and ability, to put the lid firmly on criminality of all kinds that pervade the State.

Poll Vault

High voter turnouts may signal high popular aspiration

Poll Vault

-The Times of India, February 21, 2012

Why women keep away from politics

The porngate incident in the Karnataka state assembly explains why women evade themselves from entering politics...

Is it mentally sustainable for women to stay in the same room where men are watching porn? Sunetra Choudhary explains the intricate complexities.

Why women keep away from politics

Ugly Antics

Karnataka's Porngate exposes political hypocrisy

Ugly Antics

The BJP and its hardcore Hindutva ally, Sri Ram Sene, have repeatedly exercised moral-policing over men and women who, in the cosmopolitan environs of Bangalore, have embraced the modern culture. But the recent event must surely highlight the hypocrisy of politicians who assume "the right to paint medieval morality onto normal social behaviour while failing to control their own proclivities."

-The Times of India, February 9, 2012 

Mumbai or Delhi?

Colleen Braganza compares the two giant cosmopolitans of India in terms of the women safety...

She is heavily inclined towards Mumbai in terms of offering better safety to women and she explains why in this article...

Why I feel Safer in Mumbai

An Equal Half

A couple's assets should be joint property

An Equal Half

-The Times of India, February 8, 2012

Four Bollywood actresses are making comeback attempts this year

Times View - Let youth prevail in Bollywood
Counter View - No sell-by-date on talent


-The Times of India, February 7, 2012

Older wives' tale

What it really means to shop till you drop

Older wives' tale

-The Times of India, February 6, 2012

Dress Rehearsal

Why a woman's wardrobe is three times the size of a man's wardrobe

Dress Rehearsal

-The Times of India, February 3, 2012

Jug Suraiya, in a humorous vein, presents the difference among the genders when it comes to dressing up or filling the wardrobe.   

Angelina Jolie says everything that matters in life has to do with parenthood

Times View - Fulfilment has many forms
Counter View - Parenting key to healthy society


-The Times of India, February 2, 2012

India Can't Be China

Media messages aren't responsible for social chaos

India Can't Be China

-The Times of India, February 2, 2012

"We are witness to massive changes in power structures and ways of life. The once powerful nation-state struggles to control flows of information and ideas across its borders"

Exit At Any Cost?

The US's attempt to engage the Taliban is fraught with risk for Afghanistan

Exit At Any Cost?

-The Times of India, February 1, 2012

While the Taliban have agreed to hold talks with "the world" through an office in Qatar, the US, it seems, has no idea as to where the talks will lead them, as was honestly uttered by the secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

"The Obama administration is willing to hand over five Taliban commanders currently in Guantanamo Bay as a "confidence-building measure" without significant concessions in return."

How is Afghanistan going to be effected in the wake of current circumstances? Especially when Pakistan's role is an additional "dark mystery."

More Than Popcorn

Awards show big changes in how films fare

More Than Popcorn

-The Times of India, January 31, 2012

The 57th Idea Filmfare Awards painted a picture of a new, evolved Bollywood - one that is more closer to reality than it has been in the past.

The Filmfare had much to celebrate, says the editor, with three new remarkable stars - those three vital characteristics of Bollywood that have taken center-stage off late, and aided in its transition. 

UGC moots 20 universities, 800 colleges exclusively for women

Times View - It's a pointless move
Counter View - Will ensure gender equity


The Times of India, January 28, 2012

A Trimmed Idea Of India

Liberals must stop accommodating fringe elements and take a stand on fundamentals

A Trimmed Idea Of India

-The Times of India, January 27, 2012

When JLF opens itself to public, it invites the Indian liberals - not the "manicured handful of intellectuals discussing the Russian or Tamil Stalin at clubs and TV studios" - but "thousands of people from diverse classes and languages, spread over distant cities and towns - often obtaining books from fading libraries and railway carts, debating poets in the low-voltage light of old homes, opposing the unjust hierarchies of Indian life," says Srijana Mitra Das.

"As more Indians show intolerance to anyone who threatens violence, we will have more festivals where liberal and illiberal will use only their words to make points or refute them."

It is these Indians, and the growing numbers, that will challenge book bans, "and show the finger to anyone who threatens violence" in the future.  

When Health Is Security

To truly benefit the needy, the microfinance sector must focus on the issue of health

When Health Is Security

-The Times of India, January 24, 2012

"After all, financial services are not just about money or about giving loans to the poor. They are really about building assets to secure lives and livelihoods."