The government deserves credit for recognizing that women’s mobility is inseparable from women’s participation in work, education, and public life. But the measure will succeed only if it is accompanied by a broader change in how we think about public space.
The presumption of innocence, one of the oldest principles of modern jurisprudence, loses all practical meaning if an acquittal arrives only after years spent inside a prison cell.
The first anniversary of a revolution can be about celebrating what was achieved. The second year should be about measuring what has changed.
The lesson from Bangladesh, Nepal, and now India is not that students have become unusually rebellious. It is that the region's political class has become unusually incapable of seeing them.
While we may briefly celebrate that the onslaught of criticism finally led to an apology and considerations for exam retakes, the government's quick patch-ups, for now, are, simply put, temporary band-aids.
By the time you read this, Morocco may already have had their rematch, and Norway may have taken England's measure. But something has shifted this June and July that no scoreline can shift back. The giants now walk onto the pitch uncertain.