2013: Time for a society to revisit conventions

It is not easy to sum up 2012 without a deep feeling of despair. If 2011 was the year in which some fundamental structural issues with our political system were exposed, 2012 seems to have not only deepened our  understanding  of those shortcomings, but also made us alive to the deepening fissures in society. This was a terrible year in terms of crimes against women with the brutal gang rape of the young girl in Delhi and the  subsequent  callousness  and insensitivity shown by the political class, underlined the fact that gender discrimination is deeply embedded into the societal fabric.

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