While there is no denying that certain sections of the community deserve aid, the politics of reservation can be suicidal for India.
'Who is the right Mekhail? Mekhail I or Mekhail II?'
Here's this week's collection of wacky and funny stories from around the world.
It is imperative that we deconstruct the current narrative and rewrite the storyline. To this end we need to alter the basic premise of the controversy, eliminate the obstructionists, home in on the true stakeholders and redefine the rules of engagement, says Vivek Gumaste.
Pakistan faces a challenge largely of its own creation and only political processes can correct it, argues Raza Rumi.
Today when we see the man behaving in a controlled, almost genteel fashion, creating a government with Prussian efficiency, colonising Delhi with a strange silence of expectation, one must ask is this Modi? Or is Modi all the trails he has left behind?'