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  • Death of Depth- India Aground?

    18 September 2020 Few people are aware of how different the Indian scientific scene was before the centrally funded research laboratories and research institutions sprung up. Even fewer now are in terms with the how early genius and pioneering work in several fields had ended up with international recognition, yet, India did not suffer as Read more

  • Indian Software: From Cybercoolies to Cybercreators?

    16 September 2020 We are seeing a flurry of announcements regarding the replacement of banned Chinese Apps with local/homegrown versions, like FAUG for PUBG, including conspiracists chatter by fans of the departed Sushant Singh Rajput who claim that his sponsored firm was about to release a slew of apps that would have upset the domestic Read more

  • Cyber PsyOps From China?

    15 September 2020 The news broke out that Chinese were monitoring the social media handles and accounts of several thousand prominent Indians, Australians and Americans yesterday. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-14/chinese-data-leak-linked-to-military-names-australians/12656668 At the heart of this Hybrid war as this is being touted is a company based in Shenzhen China ( that sounds like Schengen of EU) called Zhenhua Read more

  • Recasting Indian System of Governance

    13 September 2020 One of the interesting proposals of the INC Manifesto in the last Lok Sabha polls of 2019 was to have directly elected Mayorship for initially major cities and towns with populations well over 10 million and based on the experience to slowly bring it down to every municipal limit, with crucial difference Read more

  • The Political Will

    12 September 2020 There is a lot of churn about emancipation of women, about why states in Southern India seem to fare far better than those in the Gangetic plains where they daily do ablutions with ‘Gangamiaa’! Whether it is gender ratio, or school education access, or late age for marriage in respect of the Read more

  • Spurred by Sparrow

    11 September 2020 When you are in the class of ‘birder’ that I am, you would have been quite dismayed to see the disappearance of the sparrow, the one small bird near you which you could identify, whose dewy drop eyes and chirpy nature conjured for you a sliver of sylvan spring, of hope and Read more

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