The BJP which was trying to corner the government on the cash-for-votes scandal is in the dock now, a chargesheet having been filed against its own members. This decision by the Delhi Police however raises some questions.

First of all this chargesheet has been filed three years after the actual incident, and that too after the Supreme Court pulled up the DP for inaction. Further the government would like us to believe the DP is independent. This is evident from it trying to shift the blame onto DP for the recent arrest of Anna Hazare. Now the DP chargesheet does not name the Congress MPs. It is probably a classic case of the hunter becoming the hunted. Amar Singh has been named and the case against the BJP members seems to be one of entrapment. Now are we to believe that Amar Singh conspired with the BJP to discredit the Congress? If this is not true then what conceivable reason is there for Amar Singh to be a participant in this entire episode?

Moving on, the decision by the IIMs to award marks for being a girl are, in my humble opinion, blatantly unfair. Some of my closest friends are girls, however I'm sure they too would agree with me at least to some extent. Awarding extra marks to non-engineer candidates might still make some sense if it is restricted to the mathematical portion of evaluation. In today's world of equal rights this is a retrograde step. The combined faculty of these esteemed institutions could surely have come up with another solution to increase diversity. I'm pretty sure the male candidates are all for increased diversity, but not at their expense. This country seems to be increasingly becoming a difficult place for a "forward-category" male students.