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Union Minister of State Suresh Gopi speaks in the Rajya Sabha. | Photo Credit: PTI Last week, when the Justice Hema Committee report, which provides a damning indictment of the exploitation faced by women in the Malayalam film industry, was being discussed in Kerala, Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Tourism, Suresh Gopi, found himself in the midst of a controversy.Mr. Gopi, an actor and the lone Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Kerala, accused the media of prematurely judging actor-MLA Mukesh of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), who faces cases of sexual assault and rape. His comments put his party in an embarrassing position since the BJP has been demanding Mr. Mukesh’s resignation. Also Read | Allegations against film industry creation of media: Suresh GopiMr. Gopi sai...

Only three Indian prime ministers have scaled Mount 3.0—the rarefied pinnacle of a third term in office. The former two, Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi, encountered major turbulence during their third stints and failed to complete their full terms. Nehru erred seriously at the start of his third term when the Indian armed forces suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of China in the 1962 border war. His persona and credibility considerably diminished, Nehru died of a heart attack in 1964, three years before his term was to end. Unlike him, Indira did not win a third consecutive term; she was defeated in the 1977 general election after completing two terms, the second term blackened by her imposition of the Emergency in 1975. However, she stormed back to power in 1980 a...

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