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Rig-My Role: ECI-EVM Saga
22 May 19 For a nation accustomed to regular elections, with an ECI with its established authority and a judiciary where the canonical law existed on abuse of office under electoral code of conduct involving a candidate no less than the then Premier of India, what should have been rigmarole has become one of the… Read more
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Persian Perplexity!
21 May 2019 Fast gathering pace is the enormity of what could be another of those ‘phantom’ caused wars, like Iraqi WMD which deposed Saddam Hussein for which several million Iraqis paid with their lives and personal wealth, the great farce of Gulf War 2 still lingers in the Persian Gulf, she is very much… Read more
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Exit Tensions!Waltz Mr Moan-goose!
20 May 2019 It is not winners take all! Actually it has become Whiners All! When we thought we had exhausted ourselves with our grumbles and stumbles, after our chutzpah and fumbles, when we thought we had steered clear of brambles, we find we are not quite there at all! What psychologically we do not… Read more
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Waxing Wickedness! ‘Kuch Bhi’!
19 May 2019 Let me be very clear that what ever Mr Makarand Paranjpe may have written, he does not speak for me! For a person imbued with Dharma and her nuances, for whom a life so far has been interpretation of shadows, of hues and layers, there is such a thing as a limit!… Read more
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Sri Lanka’s Fissures
14 May 2019 In my assessment of the Easter Sunday Blasts that rocked the island straddling coast to coast, I had hinted at a more deeper sinister plot of polarising and alluded to other events in the larger South Asian context, including several such incidents under investigation in India. So if one saw now the… Read more
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Tent Camel!
10 May 19 We all know the parable where an Arab was halted for the night in a windy night over the dunes, when his camel asked him if it could keep its head snug inside the tent! Then the camel extends to itself the hospitality of the tent and when it enters the tent… Read more