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"I do not wish to wait to write an obituary for John Dayal, my father, an Indian citizen, journalist and minority rights activist. I have seen his activism grow each day, and his savings getting depleted because he is too voluble, too opinionated, and too unafraid to be employed as the full-time journalist that he once was. That was his choice to make. He lives by the choice, and makes a living with the spare writing or speaking assignment that comes his way. However, what should not be a choice is his right to live fearlessly in his own country.

'By Tuesday afternoon, the Economic Times had taken down a report, published in the June 30 edition of the paper, from the website. Headlined “Sec 377 may be scrapped, says Gowda” the report by Sowmya Aji quoted the law minister as sending positive signals to the LGBT community on Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalises homosexuality.

'Yesterday, Kiran Bedi, former associate of Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal in the Lokpal movement, formally joined the BJP. She is seen as the unofficial Delhi CM candidate for BJP. This comes after months of Kiran Bedi warming upto the BJP via Twitter and other media. But not long ago, when she was still active in the Lokpal agitation, she made some tweets criticising the BJP and also Narendra Modi, the current PM. We bring you ten of those tweets, which we feel she should have deleted before her “U-Turn”: When Kiran Bedi criticised the then Gujarat CM’s “toothless” Lokayukta...

'Tweets by BJP national executive member C T Ravi on the Sahranpur riots has come in for severe criticism for their inflammatory tone. In one of the posts, Mr. Ravi, who is also party general secretary for Karnataka, uploaded a video link that said: “How Congress leaders made 1000s of Muslims attack the Gurdwara & cause Saharanpur riots — watch this Sikh speak.” Mr. Ravi also tweeted, “Only the Gujarat model, that worked from 2002 in containing their rioting elements, can work.