Eyewitness footage and a video confession was not enough to get the Alwar district court to convict the six men accused of lynching Pehlu Khan in 2017. The verdict was based on “serious lacunas” in the police probe, and it’s not the first time that police incompetence has prevented courts from meting out justice.

What could have been a simple response to accusations of provoking nuclear war became a turning point in the Priyanka Chopra career graph. With a tweet and a speech, Chopra’s former detractors now see her as a nationalist champion who put a Pakistani in her place.

Malala Yousafzai added another incredible achievement to her already impressive list – uniting India and Pakistan (or at least their Twitter trolls). After Yousafzai called for a “peaceful resolution” on the Kashmir issue, she ironically received hate from both sides.

The Bali family is not the first group of Indian tourists to embarrass themselves while on holiday, and they certainly won’t be the last. Our reputation seems to precede us; Indian travellers rarely feature in the lists of best-behaved tourists.

Now that food apps can deliver lunch faster than it takes us to cross the road, and all the bars seem to have broken the button that reduces the volume of music, leaving the house has become too much of a task. Going out is no longer worth it.

While the doctors’ protest in Bengal has highlighted the abuse faced by medical professionals, the rest of India’s service industry is also wounded on a daily basis by the gruffness of the average Indian client — a species that prides itself on its lack of respect for the provider.

CM Mamata Banerjee and resident doctors at Kolkata’s NRS Hospital are locked in a standoff. While the country’s medical services are stretched thin over a nationwide strike of doctors, it is important to understand why violence against medical professionals is spiking in India.

One can understand our need to condemn the murder of a three-year-old girl in Aligarh. What is indefensible though, is the readiness of a group of individuals to use a national tragedy as an opportunity to hawk hatred among an already emotionally volatile public. It’s almost as if the victim doesn’t matter. All that matters is inciting hostility in the name of religion.

I wasn’t born during Tamil Nadu’s anti-Hindi agitation in the ’60s, but I do know enough to say the imposition was a source of vexation for my grandparents, my parents, and now me. The knowledge of Hindi has always been equated with national pride. And efforts to make the language mandatory once again, accords it a ranking above all other regional languages.

Students from marginalised communities come to cities like Mumbai with the hope that these are places filled with open-minded people free of prejudice. But Dr Payal Tadvi’s suicide brings to light the struggles of students from SC/ST categories in our educational institutions, where reservation is a pejorative word.