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31 March 2019 There is apparently no sense of proportion? It seems our post millennial world of the last two decades is such a riot of data, meta data as we call it, that humans are unable to make sense of how these strands relate to them and how they seem poorly equipped to handle Read more

30 March 2019 I would never have found a first time congresswoman and that too representing New York (14th District) coming from a background like hers to be a subject of such interest. But here I am following her speeches and reading about her Green New Deal and her questioning of modern capitalism with its Read more

It is funny that Mr Sekhar Gupta should have authored that piece(https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/opinion-what-the-iaf-paf-dogfight-reveals/story-dDa4H38Xtq7LPnj6DtkZRN.html) about how India’s air capability had denuded between 1999 and 2019, in the wake of the Balakot Strikes and the response of the PAF the next day which saw our Wing Commander chute down over POK. Our Abhinandan was visible, thanks to Pakistani Read more

29 March 2019 It seemed relieved that Mueller report submitted to the Attorney General Barr was not an indictment on President Trump, that in the finally tally an determination could not be arrived at about collusion between the President and the Russians. In recent memory of popular culture, after the hit number ‘Rasputin’ by BoneyM Read more

26 March 2019 I will  not go into the economics of MIGS the version of UBIS( Universal Basic Income Scheme) that Mr Rahul Gandhi has finally announced yesterday, after it was worked on by economists, vetting by the CWC which includes Dr Manmohan Singh and Mr Chidambaram. Mr Jaitley has already watered it down into Read more

Money Monsters: Government to Mr Modi was series of departments perpetually making do with less. So we have all manner of ministries struggling to tide over shortage of funds. Many ministries simply leaned on their PSUs to manage non-budgeted  expenditures. Just a simple look at the balance sheets of Navaratna PSUs will give away the Read more