NGOs know from experience that many countries that decry violence against women do not implement laws against trafficking and they tolerate and even promote the prostitution of women.

Here, it is important to note and to decry the increasing number of violent conflicts, especially in Africa, with their attendant desolation including loss of life, mass displacement, rape and ethnic cleansing.

Many Modi supporters in the media have already begun to decry the series of policy abdications Modi has conducted since his campaign. Indian citizens who thought that they voted for change are beginning to wonder if the BJP has simply reprised the UPA government s policies.

His own image has been tarnished by his inaction (or worse) during the massacre of more than a thousand Gujarati Muslims in a pogrom on his watch in 2002. Modi would rather be perceived as embodying Patel s decisiveness than as the destructive bigot his enemies decry.

The Nehruvian consensus facilitated India s democratic maturation and accommodated the country s many diverse interests, without permitting any one group or section to dominate the nascent nation state. It is fashionable today to decry Nehruvian socialism as a corrupt and inefficient system that condemned India to many years of slow economic growth.

Three years after the global economy s near collapse, the feeble recovery has already petered out in most developed countries, whose economic inertia will drag down the rest. Pundits decry a double dip recession, but in some countries the first dip never ended Greek GDP has been dipping for three years.

Many world leaders, particularly those in Europe, decry the Bush administration s undermining of the UN, especially since 2003. Yet leaders in France, who expressed outrage when the US sidestepped the UN and invaded Iraq without the international community s blessing, stunned the world in August when they backed down from their promise to send 2,000 peacekeepers to intervene in southern Lebanon, and instead only committed 200.