Aasha Mehreen Amin

Why couldn’t we protect Nurse Tania and other Nirbhayas?

Every time we read the word “rape” and “gang rape”, we cringe with horror. Yet these two words keep coming up too often in our daily dose of nightmarish news.
The audacity to do what is right

As the country become a state of thieves?” Such a strong remark by a High Court judge was in reference to the strange reality of many policemen leading hard lives while others lived in expensive houses.
How did zebra crossings become death traps?

There could be nothing more symbolic of the utter absurdity of the state of our roads than a zebra crossing stained by the blood of a university student, a road safety campaigner who was crushed by a speeding bus racing with another speeding bus.
Ducsu dreams dashed: Another symptom of the disease

What do you call those who just refuse to see the writing on the wall? Delusional fools or compulsive optimists? Perhaps we are a bit of both.
Losing the only roof over their heads

The image is all too familiar, so much so that it is almost forgettable: A woman wailing amongst debris that once was what she called her home.