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Nothing in recent history has gripped India as the gang-rape

In this photograph taken on December 22, Indian demonstrators push against a police barricade during a protest calling for better safety for women following the rape of a student, in front of the government secretariat and presidential palace in New Delhi. Claims of police incompetence and public apathy stirred new anger in the Delhi gang-rape case on January 5, after the boyfriend of the victim recounted details of the savage attack for the first time. — AFP photo

ANONYMITY of the New Delhi gang-rape victim must be counted as a factor which has helped sustain remarkable youth mobilisation to this day. If names were revealed at the very outset of the gruesome incident, it is just possible that caste differences would have come in the way of the unprecedented upsurge. Anonymity enabled Braveheart to transcend the... Full story

Why do some ministers succeed while others fail?

EVEN diehard Awami League supporters would agree that the performance of the current AL cabinet has been mixed. The ministers have succeeded in certain areas while failed in others. Full story

Fiscal cliff showed America is a country addicted to crisis

SO WE did not fall off the cliff. But the reaction to the news of the deal suggests that we’ve become a culture addicted to crisis, because barely had the vote been taken when the spin from politicians, from the mainstream... Full story

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