Margaret Thatcher earned the sobriquet, ‘Margaret Thatcher, milk snatcher!’ when she withdrew the free school milk dished out by the state to all schoolchildren in the ’70s... Now, a Conservative-led coalition is making more than amends.

Eminent notables who were saying that ‘India is not Gujarat’ changed their tone. They commented favourably on the attendance, Modi’s eloquence and that he made a ‘responsible’ speech.

From the outset, Mr Obama has insisted that Mr Assad ‘must go’. By seeking Mr Assad’s removal as a pre-condition, the US has effectively scuttled any serious attempt at finding a political solution.

Visvesvaraya stre-ngthened the face of the public but damaged the vitality of the private by allowing little space for pain or trauma. His was an immaculate life, immaculately conceived and executed.

And so she lives on, known only by her vaginal violations... Never before has a woman, whom a nation wishes to revere, been known only by a name which symbolises her victimhood.

Dissent has a place in the Congress only if it is from the dynasty. When it emanates from other quarters, there is no attempt to engage, discuss, reason with or to persuade. Such voices are snuffed out.

India’s voice, feeble enough to begin with, has sunk to an emaciated whisper, because it was attending the G-20 Summit more as a supplicant for a bailout rather than as a fully empowered participant

The accused’s identity should be concealed because he might be innocent. Terry Harrison, who was falsely accused of rape five years ago, agrees. Only the guilty should be named and shamed, he says.

Politics operates in a social vacuum, where people and their lives don’t matter; they are just voters who are to be manipulated in any which way, even if sometimes the methods are a bit bloody.

The perception of drudgery needs to be reviewed first because half the hassle for handloom weavers and their families comes from lack of basic services and poor delivery of entitlements