“Bad touch” caught me by surprise in many different ways while I was growing up. Unwarranted proximity suffocated me. After one point, no one could touch me.

I’m in a relationship where my partner’s happiness is a constant reminder that they have something that I don’t. There are two ways this could go: Either I can feel inspired, and try to walk down the same path. Or I can start hating him for it.

There is an urgent need for compassion in the world as a resource. It’s evident everywhere; looming news of possible wars, trolls on social media, abject inequality in standards of living, the swell of mental health problems. How does something as basic as kindness get neglected to this extent?

Assault and harassment in the form of groping and eve-teasing take place with an alarming frequency in the country. Limiting what constitutes assault to “skin-to-skin contact” like Bombay HC means women are more likely to not report incidents and thus, society as a whole will be neglectful of these atrocities.

The appointment of 19-year-old Shrishti Goswami as CM for a day was made to send a message of encouraging leadership capability among girls on the occasion of National Girl Child Day yesterday.

The norm has always been for women, however accomplished they may be, to play second fiddle to more powerful men in their lives. Now, a new, if somewhat rare, breed of man has emerged, willing to step into those shoes and subvert this gender imbalance.

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On Republic Day, we look back at Rajiv Rai’s cult classic Vishwatma, where Bollywood took deshbhakti to the diaspora. The film, which released 28 years ago, gave us the greatest masala national integration song, “Dil le gayi teri bindiya,” and reminds us of a time when no one was asked to prove their patriotism.

Everyone remembers Manoj Kumar’s Clerk for that iconic scene where Ashok Kumar recovers from a heart attack thanks to a shot of nationalism. But Clerk, the story of a government servant who loves the system irrespective of all its ills, is like a beta stage for modern super patriots.