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  • The Human Soup

    28 January 2021 Public memory is fickle say political commentators, however history is full of public memory being elephantine, quite willing to bide their time, as we saw during the French Revolution, in the Bolshevik overthrow of Tsar of Russia, and closer to home, in Chaurichura chowky in Gorakhpur UP when a procession chanting Non Read more

  • Xi’s Opening Gambit in 2021

    26 January 2021 We first saw a brief glimpse of Jack Ma, that was on 20 January 2021, as if to offer an olive branch of sorts to the incoming Biden Administration. Yet, Xi’s China is not a suitor, trying to woo the US, which could well be Deng’s China back then in the 70s Read more

  • A Leading Light Amidst Stars

    24 January 2021 What can be really said about ‘genetics’ a kind of reaffirmation of the weird logic that runs through Indic scriptural corruption that manifested as caste system, and Western Eugenics, when you face a family that counts 2 Nobel Laureates and half a dozen stellar role models in varied fields, ranging from literary Read more

  • Biden’s Bid

    24 January 2021 Finally we can begin to gaze away from the most important Western Democratic system and nation state, the USA and focus elsewhere. For actually on 20 January 2021, there were no surprises in the script. Of course we saw American raw power of her popular culture on display all day, starting with Read more

  • The Ageing Mess of Media

    19 January 2021 Oh some things have really aged well. We could have taken this in terms of unraveling or in terms of implosion, but the disclosures about the true or presumably inner thoughts that did not quite get blared in as many words of Mr Arnab Goswami in his WhatsApp conversations with the boss Read more

  • Jacked Ma & Hopping Schultz

    16 January 2021 It was curious to read that President Xi was asking the boss of Starbucks to play good samaritan and renew high level contacts with incoming Biden administration to ‘ease the US China economic relations’! This tall request from Xi comes at a time when Biden may not exactly reset the button for Read more

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