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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

Despite being a person who loves to critically examine and perhaps even over analyse stuff, very briefly I can say what are the major thrusts where Mr Modi has kept the promise of his campaign when in government. These are as yet  Signals because like many things, they will need the consensus of most governments… Read more

20 March 2019 An Australian News paper ran a cartoon that showed New Zealand’s famous fern as composed of Muslims in various forms of prayer, thus in one go, creating a new syntax of mourning the loss of 50 plus lives lost in the brutal broad daylight murders of the faithful in their prayer halls… Read more

18 March 2019 It is not often that one sees a whole life cycle of change upfront and close, and Mr Manohar Parikkar offers this opportunity for political analysts and sociologists to examine, as he departs mortally from the scenes of his beloved Goa. What Mr Parikkar did was to transform a placid, almost alien… Read more

Only few, if not exclusively Tamil, scholars are comfortable with a pre Vedic culture for India, and even amongst them, some western Tamil scholars including David Shulman who wrote the masterpiece ‘Tamil A Biography’ do not accept that Tamil is older than Sanskrit, or the possibility that Sanskrit itself was a collaborative effort, taking in… Read more

Why you would wonder that the biggest judicial intervention that will save Indic civilisation came from a series of orders of the Madras High Court? https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/keezhadi-excavations-madras-high-court-orders-transfer-of-asi-officer-amarnath-ramakrishna-back-to-tamil-nadu/articleshow/68428874.cmsIn fact, few people would be aware of a cultural war that has been raging in academia, which even Mr Rahul Gandhi does not directly refer to like how he… Read more