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19 April 2019 I could borrow from Charles Dickens in saying ‘Those were the best of times and the worst of times’… Why would one really be perturbed about the manner in which we are googling and searching and sourcing of information? After all the Wikileaks to Wiki series of websites have thrown a scintillating Read more

15 April 19 It is quite funny when one sees how Medical field has been handled by the modern world, in a far cry from how similarly evolved Judicial profession has sustained its original centripetal norm. While every thing in the judicial system gravitates and evolves around the Judge who ‘dispenses’ justice, medicine has evolved Read more

14 April 2019 My first thoughts at how Assange will go down in history was crystal- That he is not favourite of our times, associated more with disruption and notoriety than with the actual tectonic shift his contributions were to transparency. Julian is on the Wrong side of Time but on the Right side of Read more

13 April 2019-One Hundred Years of Jallianwala Bagh. There is no such thing as poetic justice, one would aver, for the Prime Minister of the country that carried out the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh even in its centennial year of commemoration could not go beyond an expression of regret. An apology too, would surely not Read more

11 April 2019 For an Indian it is not understandable, or easily relatable, how the fission over the fate of foetuses is now raising its head after we have read about Roe v Wade, in which the US Supreme Court gave women the right to abort. We thought that the law was settled, little realising Read more

8 April 2019 If there is any central theme of this elections, it is the least bit about the much bandied ‘civilisational clash’, as if this were a wrestling bout for the moral high ground, apparently a campaign for the ‘conscience of India’, a struggle for her soul! Pray, do not be persuaded by such Read more