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6 May 2019 (Honest disclaimer- It has been more than a year since I stopped watching any news on TV, and I am trying to develop a taste for ‘Editorji’ an app based news media headed by Vikram Chandra.) The thing about our Post Truth world is how each of us feels that this is Read more

5 May 2019 Just when you thought you had seen it all, this season comes across like a Mahabharata, Vyasa narrating one story at multiple levels, about how difficult it is to practise Dharma and how nuanced it remains to accept it! When Draupadi asks the Sages why Dharma deserted them in the Hall of Read more

4 May 2019 Political morality appeared to be an oxymoron once, and then for reasons perhaps of consolidation and trench warfare, political morality seemed to surface, especially after the Bommai Judgement, where the Supreme Court clearly ruled that assemblies will get to test their support on floor of the house, and this along with the Read more

03 May 19 The Barr testimony is on, and that is not what makes this tragic headline. William Barr Attorney General of USA, when he issued that four page apology of a synopsis about the Mueller report, which now has been contested by the special prosecutor himself, and his deposition to the Congress denying and Read more

2 May 2019 News broke out that China had sought to concede on Masood Azhar resolution which it had placed on technical hold for couple of months, a resolution it had vetoed earlier in the UNSC, one brought in by France after Pulwama happened. For some reasons an immature Indian media played on it as Read more

27 April 19 From 2014, those heady months leading up to May, to now, there are crucial differences. It is for us to notice or ignore these, the first crucial one is the lack of any anger now against the Congress Party, which has been viewed by people as the natural party of India’s social Read more