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On September, the Supreme Court read down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and people with placards saying ‘Love is genderless’ took over the streets. Today, as sure as Tuesday follows Monday and Sunday precedes Monday, ‘what will happen?’ has become the tone and tenor. One easy pick, naturally, is that “majoritarian” impulses will harden, and don’t be surprised if homo-lynching takes over from cow-lynching.

History continues to be made across the United States of America as an unprecedented number of women of color, particularly Black women, are running for and winning public office. Ayanna Pressley has added her story to this game-changing moment in time, with her victory against House veteran Michael Capuano to secure the Democratic nomination to the U.S Congress in a Massachusetts district that covers much of Boston and some of its suburbs.

By the time laws are placed, excised and strengthened to satisfy every minority group in the assembly line, it will be the end of humankind. The LGBTIQ community has been fortunate gaining acceptance in most parts of the world and now in India, too, with the Supreme Court decriminalizing Section 377.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The heart-warming unity shown by both the government and the opposition in getting the Kerala Assembly to pass a unanimous resolution promising unflinching support for rehabilitation on a war footing in the wake of the state’s devastating floods came as a breath of fresh air.

BHOPAL: From the manner in which incidents of political nature are being reported from various areas of Madhya Pradesh there is every reason to apprehend that November Vidhan Sabha elections may not be entirely peaceful affair.

Even a motley alliance of RJD and Congress is sufficient to wreck the electoral prospect of the JD(U) chief and chief executive of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, the person who barely a year back was perceived and projected as the political face of the anti-BJP forces. But the social acceptability of the grand alliance and more and more political parties expressing their willingness to join the alliance has provided an explicit indication that the 2019 election and more precisely the 2020 assembly election would prove to be waterloo for him.

Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear whether the Pune Police had reason to arrest the five civil society activists, who the court said have every right to dissent in a democracy. The apex court will see if the police had credible evidence to prove that it was more than dissent that was at stake. The police will have to come with relevant documents in English not Marathi. Clearly English rules.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is only the messenger boy. The order to media to stop using ‘Dalit’ for people categorized as Scheduled Castes came from a high court. The British had coined ‘Scheduled Castes’ in 1935 to sum up a bunch of humankind born on the subcontinent and punished for breathing the same air the ‘higher humans’ inhaled.

On Saturday, September 1, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Brazil voted six to one that former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the presidential candidate of the Workers’ Party (Partido do Trabalho) in the October elections this year, must be barred from running because of a dubious conviction earlier for corruption and money laundering. The Workers’ Party is now appealing this decision to the country’s Supreme Court.

The country’s patience is being tried by the rising price of petroleum and diesel. As the prices are scaling higher, the one question almost on every lip is: what is the government doing? Can’t the price be brought down? The rising prices are being encashed by the politicians. The all-time buffoon among them, Derek O’Brien, was heard screaming on TV discussion sets “It’s a loot, it’s a loot, it’s loot”.