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  • The God of All Things

    18 December 2020 There is a Tamil saying that marriage is a harvest of 1000 years. No, by no stretch is this a foray in marital counselling, nor a peek into how India’s marital customs came into vogue! There are times when you must face what is the elephant in the room- the lack of… Read more

  • The cosy versus the quota!

    17 December 2020 Science has confirmed for us what humans knew in their finest moments all along, that give or take chance, all humans are born equal. In essence, whatever distorts this basic creed of humanity must be squarely addressed, and unfortunately we have a system where so many Aryabhatas, Brahmaguptas, Matangs and more are… Read more

  • Indian Liberation!

    16 December 2020 For simply the significance of this day, the acclaim of which is simply unfair to reduce to polemics or strategic concerns, 16 December as Vijay Diwas or Victory Day was the greatest day when India’s military accomplished for her, the victory of a national idea that was notionally and rationally superior to… Read more

  • The Winter of Dreary Dread!

    14 December 2020 The fancy is simply revolting. It is clearly a battle not just for the Soul of America but more widely, it is one for the soul of Democracy itself. Why must we look at this overcast sky with fomenting chill winds, precipitating beads of flakes and drops that covers everything with a… Read more

  • Harbour and Harbour

    12 December 2020 American election drama was punctuated with the final results announced and a day called Safe Harbor Day, when apparently the US Congress is supposed to accept the decision of individual states electoral college votes as final or incontrovertible. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/us/politics/election-safe-harbor-deadline.html It is as with the US a Congressional law passed after a confusion… Read more

  • Transparency of Governance

    10 December 2020 It is called the Global Corruption Barometer and the report I have glanced through is a portion called Asia 2020. https://images.transparencycdn.org/images/GCB_Asia_2020_Report_Web_final.pdf In any event this survey conducted just around the time much of Asia was ‘unlocking’ from the Pandemic with skeletal functioning of government offices except for Sri Lanka and Vietnam whose… Read more

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