Bilkis Bano and her extended family were attacked by a mob on March 3, 2002 while they were fleeing their village in Limkheda taluka of Dahod district. The Supreme Court intervened in the case after Bilkis approached the National Human Rights Commission.

By linking Nari Shakti to national progress, roots to scaling heights, PM Modi enlivens the idea of aspiration. In his Independence Day speech from Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a long and large view. This was not a speech about schemes, programmes or plans. This I-Day, instead, the prime ministerial viewfinder framed a country that has turned 75 and is moving towards its centenary.

From the lack of enabling measures that force thousands of SC &ST students to drop out of institutions of learning every year to the persecution that can drive a young scholar like Rohith Vemula to take his own life, the discrimination faced by Dalit youth is endemic and deeply ingrained.

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala created an ecosystem where investors (both domestic and foreign) have learnt to trust and lend to Indian companies and entrepreneurs. That is his lasting legacy.

Women will shape the future of India, let’s listen to what they have to say — beginning today. India’s women dream for the nation and, to borrow the words of first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, will help “build the noble mansion of free India where all her children may dwell”.

Sustained engagement with NATO must be an important part of Delhi’s self-assured strategy of multi-alignment. As India rises as a large economy its geopolitical salience as a swing state among the great powers is growing.

Ultimately, the voters need to judge the economic and fiscal implications of such policies. While a wider conversation on this issue is needed, it needs to be located firmly in the political process.

Kim isn't the only leader to have declared premature victory against the “malignant pandemic disease”. Strongmen, democratically elected or otherwise, have taken the pulpit and claimed they had vanquished the microscopic enemy as early as 2020, after the first wave.

Witnessing the 1968 student riots in Paris shaped Miyake’s ideas about fashion. He was working with the legendary couturier Hubert de Givenchy at the time, and grew disenchanted with making clothes for a privileged few.

Today’s situation is far less grim than in March, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and when the FAO’s food price index hit an all-time high. Back home, if the monsoon delivers reasonably, as it has, in the remaining part of this month and the next, the benefits would flow to the ensuing rabi crop as well.