Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill that allows abortion beyond 20 weeks in special cases is progressive and prudent. It recognises women’s right over their bodies, and gives them greater power to choose, a departure from its earlier anachronistic version. It’s particularly creditable, coming from a usually conservative BJP government.
Rawat should focus on running his politically unstable state instead of women in ripped jeans
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat’s criticism of women who wear ripped jeans is steeped in regressive and misogynistic thinking. It isn’t such women who set ‘bad examples’, it is those with such retrograde thinking who do. Rawat should focus on running his politically unstable state instead of moral policing.
Covid surge, transfer of Mumbai police commissioner point to Uddhav Thackeray’s inexperience
Transfer of the Mumbai police commissioner following Sachin Waze’s arrest is yet another example of the MVA government’s incoherence and troublesome ineptitude. CM Uddhav Thackeray is failing with the Covid-19 crisis too. His inexperience shows as he stumbles from one crisis to another and is easily distracted by peripheral issues.
Exit of PB Mehta and Arvind Subramanian a blow to Ashoka University’s stature
The principled departure of professors Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Arvind Subramanian is a blow to Ashoka University’s rising stature. It’s particularly disappointing for a higher education pioneer built through private, liberal philanthropy, and isn’t a teaching shop. This is a lesson to other such institutions. And not a good one.