Man of the moment

As Gujarat went to the polls and the political discourse sank even lower, Rahul Gandhi's voice brought back a semblance of decency

It was with a sense of dismay, and sometimes alarm, that many of us went through 2017 — the year of hate; of hyper-nationalism; of lynchings over cows, religion and “love jihad”.
 

Time and again, I have come to a point when I have wished there was a Ctrl-Alt-Delete command that would restart the year on a better note. Then again, through the hate and cacophony have come flashes of hope, often from our courts, which made privacy a fundamental right or upheld women’s right to dignity in marriage by striking down the practice of triple talaq.

And, just as