IPS officer Prakash Singh’s historical book about policing in India makes it clear that muscular and well-armed police cannot be expected to change to a people’s police without high level statesmanship
While campaigning in 2016, Donald Trump had told a rally in Iowa: “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” Trump’s comments came amid several highly publicized mass shootings. Mass shootings and gun violence are an American addiction and still continue.
Around the world, people may wonder why mass shootings happen every 12 days in the US as if on a schedule. They happen because there are nearly 4,00,00,000 old and new guns in the USA, which are as easy to purchase with ammunition as a Big Mac with fries.
The embers of controversy which started from Kashi’s Gyanvapi Masjid has spread to many religious places across the country. Mosques are being viewed with suspicion and Hindu adjuncts and remnants are claimed as fragments of sacred Hindu temples of bygone eras.
The recent actions of the central investigating agencies have again brought to the fore the charges of political vendetta from the opposition parties. A few days after the ED arrested Delhi minister Satyendar Jain, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and leader Rahul Gandhi were also summoned.
By Col R Hariharan
Interim Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, on his sixth term, has just completed a month in office. Nobody expects the newly anointed PM to come charging on a white...
By Sanjay Raman Sinha
Recently, the sedition law was challenged in the Supreme Court after which the Court put an interim stay on it. The Court heard petitions challenging the validity...
Tarun J Tejpal’s book is set in an unnamed world of iron bars, but it is not a prison novel. It is a novel about politics, law, love, society, cops, media and the million mutinies that rage around us. It is a monumental work, an audacious ode to the human spirit.
The capital punishment debate took a new turn when the Supreme Court said that it will rationalise the sentencing process. What ails the judgment process? Why is the death sentence a dilemma for the judges?
Hate speeches have become the norm over the last few years. Recently, the Delhi Police told the Supreme Court that there was no anti-Muslim hate speech by Sudarshan TV editor-in-chief Suresh Chavhank...