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Pakistan it would appear has opened a front too many. Afghanistan warned Pakistan over violation in terms of the proposed manner for conduct of talks with Taliban, there is Iran whose Revolutionary Guards have issued warnings over the car bomb that killed Guardsmen in the Isfahan province, and we have India up in arms over… Read more

When Cambridge Analytica story broke out, we had Mark Zuckerberg called to account which was funny for how could people blame Facebook for voting Brexit or Trump? Actually a Margaret Mead quote needs revisiting:“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”… Read more

Beyond the narrative of neo-nationalism, foreign observers shared their view that this event would be woven into the national electoral narrative,  to be used by Mr Modi for ratcheting jingoism and warmongering, and by the opposition to show the government in poor light. But even before that can play out, I feel our hand was… Read more

It is important to see the event for what it was- an audacious attack, frontal involving a relatively lesser used tactic of a car bomb, driven by a terrorist, in a suicide attack on a convoy of troops. Before we view how as a nation we took this news, consider that military and paramilitary convoys… Read more

The sitter of a catch is dropped by the most agile of fielders, is stating the obvious in cricketing analogy of how even the best possible outcome is not always surety. What caused a situation where if one takes away the optics or the high adrenalin cries of neglect, a financial tangle for the Government,… Read more

The perils of a Democracy where there is no choice is signalled by the desperation in toying with the idea of an irreproachable figure by Thakshin Shinawatra and Yingluck in their now aborted attempt to anoint the King’s sister as their candidate for Prime Minister. There is no greater red letter warning than the desire… Read more