Letter from Delhi: A Bookstore of Safety

Shadi Khampur, in west Delhi, is the kind of neighbourhood where you are least likely to encounter a book store. Like a typical Indian suburb, this area is graced by dereliction and development in equal measure. Rickety buildings stand out among an ...

When India's top court berated the government this month for interfering in a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) report, it put the spotlight on a long-standing opposition gripe that the federal law enforcement agency was being politically ...

What do we seek in a Supreme Court judge? One who must exercise among the widest constitutional jurisdictions of any Supreme Court in the world: to pass any order that does "complete justice," hear, however briefly, petitions against any order from ...

(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and not necessarily of Reuters) I live in India's rape capital where rape cases are as common as power cuts used to be a few years ago.Even reports of police misbehaviour have become routine. ...

Twitterland was ablaze with indignation and outrage even as the aftermath of Delhi's latest rape abomination began to flicker on television screens on Friday. In an amplified repeat of the December 16 gang rape reaction, the democratisation of anger ...