It was believed that good governance and development is bad politics. Elections cannot be won on that. But the voters of Gujarat did something different. They showed good governance and development is good politics. It is not easy to fight elections on issue of development and I am glad people of Gujarat placed development over everything else. If we have to move ahead in the 21st century development is the only way ahead.
In the Ramayana, an ancient Hindu scripture, even when the evil Ravana abducts Lord Rama’s wife Sita, her abductor treats her with respect. But thousands of years after the scripture was written, we are still seeing women in India treated with a profound disrespect of their dignity.
Elections make for responsive and accountable governments, or so goes the truism. But can they also achieve the opposite — that is, encourage complacency, even callousness, among elected representatives? Last month's headlines from India and China present a disquieting contrast between elected and unelected governments for anyone committed to democratic politics.
San Francisco: As a co-founder of Narika, a Bay Area-based helpline for South Asian victims of domestic violence, I have come across many incidents of sexual assault against women in my community. It happens with numbing regularity. But few things have struck a chord in me as powerfully as the news of the 23-year-old, female medical student’s brutal gangrape on a Delhi bus 16 December by six drunken men.
So perhaps at last India has woken up to the daily abuse that its girls and women face. Sunday night’s horrific rape where a 23-year-old woman was beaten and gang-raped on a bus as it drove through the streets of New Delhi has rightly outraged the entire nation.
So perhaps at last India has woken up to the daily abuse that its girls and women face. Sunday night’s horrific rape where a 23-year-old woman was beaten and gang-raped on a bus as it drove through the streets of New Delhi has rightly outraged the entire nation.
Saman Khan is back with a bang. In “Dabangg 2” Super cop Chulbul Pandey, aka Robinhood Pandey is seen with more power and punch as he zooms in mid-air to bash up goons, goes head-to-head against an-about-to-be re-elected politician, and speaks in calculated sentences. And the truth is there’s no point resisting him. “Dabangg 2” begins with Chulbul Pandey moving to Kanpur.
