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  • Flips and Flops- Mind Games Over China?

    9 February 2021 Imagine when a school scuffle turns bad and reported. Then the boy who was identified as the bully and suitably castigated finds out that the one he thought he took down, is holding fort in class, regaling his audience about the many times he was whipping the bully when no one was Read more

  • Himalayan Slide in Eco Consciouness

    8 February 2021 What happened in Chamoli was ‘waiting’ to happen? https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/in-pics-massive-flooding-after-glacier-breaks-in-uttarakhand-2365205 We were quite sure that the glacier burst was something similar to the previous experience in Himachal involving the Sutlej, where a glacier melt and a mudslide had created a lake that burst and a wall of water bulldozed its way downstream in Read more

  • Shadow Slugfest

    4 February 2021 Did Carribean origin pop icon Rihanna achieve what she set out when she tweeted why we were not discussing the farmers agitation in India? It was stupendous to see that the social media platform was agog with tweets trending, her individual tweet alone was retweeted a quarter million times in first 24 Read more

  • Budgeting Anew- Recast of High Finance

    3 February 2021 One of the better moves of the Modi Government has been to do away with the Railway Budget, an anachronism from The Raj, when railway was strategic infrastructure and commanded a central role and autonomy that Independent India did not offer. While there was always a case for India to have a Read more

  • The Normalcy Return?

    1 February 2021 The flurry of administrative orders or executive orders that emanated from the White House have more or less reversed the direction of the American State within a fortnight. It demonstrated not how powerful a Presidency is in America after all, but to the larger world, it demonstrated a commitment upholding Biden Presidency, Read more

  • The Bregman Commandments

    29 January 2021 The funniest thing is how the ideas that one author has offered are in many ways so self reaffirming for many who have been thinking all along on those very lines. I had a friend and mentor whose understanding of interpersonal relationships, I had even dubbed as ‘Pach Principles’ which was a Read more

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