The silence of the feminist movement or whatever can be defined as such in the absence of outstanding focal leaders about this extreme sexual violence has been deafening.
In the Interim Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that a high power committee would be set up to consider the challenges arising from fast population grown and demographic changes. But who wants data? It pays to feed people s fears, insecurities and apprehensions. If such fears don t exist, they must be created, her husband Parakala Prabhakar says in this fascinating excerpt from his book, The Crooked Timber of New India: Essays on a Republic in Crisis.