Goa, July 19 -- Actually, in any other era in Indian politics since 1947, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan would have long since resigned (or been replaced) after public opinion turned against him, following an extraordinary string of debacles from paper leaks to testing failures

They will just kill or jail whoever criticises the government," warned the great Manipuri civil rights activist Irom Sharmila Chanu, a few hours before the Delhi Police stormed Sonam Wangchuk's protest site at Jantar Mantar yesterday morning. "There is no real democracy in India," she told Rokibuz Zaman of Scroll.in, "the demand is big, but as the people are not united [and only a few hundred people showed up in solidarity despite the capital being home to ...