Female foeticide and infanticide, child abuse, child marriages, dowry menace, domestic violence, prostitution and mortgage of woman against loan and now the battered husbands fighting misuse of Dowry acts — suddenly people seem to have woken up to the social evils rampant in our society and its system. Thanks to cine star Aamir Khan. [Read more]

The other day I met a senior corporate honcho in Mumbai. He had been to Lucknow and was impressed by the city’s development. [Read more]

When Rahul Gandhi presented Sam Pitroda as a vishkarma (a backward caste) at a public rally in UP’s backward district Akbarpur during the recent assembly election, the country was amused if not shocked. [Read more]

When former UP chief minister Mayawati had gone berserk building parks and statutes, Khushwant Singh had written in his column that she would not have invited wrath had she built schools and hospitals and named them after Dalit icons. [Read more]

Uttrakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna may be in the thick of controversies but he has certainly not lost his wit, something that he looks to have inherited from his late father HN Bahuguna. [Read more]