The secular rapes of Badaun

There is a danger in turning incidental criminal acts into grand narratives about society. The New York Times made this point in cautioning against creating broad narratives of society based on the misogynistic More...

How does it feel to be burnt alive?

How does it feel to be burnt alive? I don’t know. But my guess is that first the skin will burn, followed by the muscles and then the bones. Surely, no one will survive by the time the bones start burning. More...

Teesta Setalvad and the art of perjury

It seems Shashikant Patil, a convict in the Naroda Patiya incident during the 2002 Gujarat riots, who has been in jail for the 12 years was right in filing a case of perjury against Teesta Setalvad, of the NGO, More...

Facts of Gujarat Riots Cases

The Gujarat sessions court judgement of 26 December 2013 in many ways has pulled the curtains down one of the most motivated witch hunts against one man: the three term Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.  Equally, More...