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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

27 April 2019 The news of Iran being declared off limits for oil imports crept in surreptitiously as if the Model Code of Conduct applied to bad international news. Anywhere between 01 to 02 litres of every ten litres of crude comes from the Persian Gulf to India’s refineries. It has its ripple effect, being… Read more

26 April 2019 Honestly I did not even want to go there. From a smattering of tweets on this issue, I could make out that the Chief Justice has been accused of sexual harassment. That his case is being brought in by a lawyer who refuses/ seeks privilege to not reveal all the evidence at… Read more

25 April 2019 So what was the emerging picture? It reveals so far that a group of young men, with independent financial backing staged this series of attacks many of which did not cause quite the intended damage they aught to. Sri Lanka is on the process of promising a clean up, and the President… Read more

24 April 2019 The National Tawheed Jamaath has been placed on the cross hairs of this investigation, their leader Zahran Hashim at the centre of it, even as dozens have been arrested including six from a Colombo suburb produced before a magistrate within the first 24 hours of the terror attacks. The lead question for… Read more

What is the narrative backdrop to this random act seemingly of violence that ripped apart Sri Lanka at her waist geographically, targeting centres on either coast, killing and maiming hundreds? From the cursory survey of targets it was clear that Churches and hotels were targeted. Were they targets in retaliation to Christchurch? Were these acts… Read more