A great opportunity to show that India is ready to toughen up and treat criminals as they should be has been lost. The national outrage felt over the rape is now a wasted emotion.

Through the strongly political tenor of its interventions, regardless of the issue at hand, the BJP leadership is seeking to exploit the numerous weaknesses of the government

Abu Jindal’s deportation to India from Saudi Arabia was firmly resisted by the Pakistanis. This is a measure of the importance that Islamabad attaches to key terrorist operatives.

A US-led war in Syria would destabilise a volatile region which is an important source of international energy supplies, and have a sharp impact on the world economy, especially for developing countries like India