'Modi Lacks Moral Leadership'; are women being sidelined in Indian politics?; closure of schools in Odisha; and more

[View this email in your browser]( Top Story [Watch | ‘Modi Lacks Moral Leadership': Yashwant Sinha]( Karan Thapar [Karan Thapar interviews former finance minister Yashwant Sinha on his overall assessment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, the Karnataka crisis, Rahul Gandhi and the BJP's lack of moral leadership.]( [Karnataka Points to a Deepening Crisis in the Practice of Electoral Democracy]( Monobina Gupta [Actions on both sides of the electoral divide in the still continuing Karnataka saga underline the frailties that are diminishing the idea of electoral democracy.]( [Govt. Promises Shot in the Arm for Quantum Tech Research in India]( K.S. Jayaraman [The announcement was made during a five-day international conference at the Raman Research Institute in Bengaluru.]( [India’s Bureaucracy Needs to Do More for Forest Dwellers]( Sanjiv Phansalkar [The country’s particularly vulnerable tribal groups have been slowly reduced to virtual serfdom.]( [Parasite That Decimated UK’s Garden Birds Now Found in Mynas in Pakistan]( Rashmi Bhat [Take a parasite known to have wiped out 1.5 million birds in a single year and put it in one of the three most invasive bird species in the world. What do you get?]( Don’t Forget the Kathua and Unnao Rapes Because #Metoo Starts at Home Jo McGowan Chopra [Child abuse is more frequent and closer to us than we acknowledge. In fact, every other child in India has been sexually abused. So why don't kids tell us about it?]( [Closure of Schools in Odisha Leaves Marginalised Children in the Lurch]( Rakhi Ghosh [Rayagada district alone has witnessed closure of 121 government schools, followed by 90 schools in Kandhamal. The two districts have more than 60% tribal and Dalit population.]( [Are Women Being Sidelined in Indian Politics?]( Rashme Sehgal [At a time when the Election Commission has found that women candidates are often more educated than their male counterparts, and despite tall talk about breaking gender barriers, the number of tickets to women candidates has shrunk drastically.]( ['Bohemian Rhapsody' Had Better Be a Rocking Hit. It's What Freddie Mercury Deserves]( Aleesha Matharu [Magnificent or cataclysmic? The biopic could go either way – films like this have a way of dodging the middle ground – but fans have their fingers crossed that it does justice to a band as legendary as Queen.]( Copyright © 2018 The Wire, All rights reserved. You're getting this email because you recently subscribed to receive email digests from The Wire via our website. Our mailing address is: The Wire 13, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg Gole MarketNew Delhi 110001 India [Add us to your address book](//thewire.us11.list-manage.com/vcard?u=6b988b13445248b1268a308f2&id=4808224841) Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](