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The Eco-signal of Indira Gandhi Peace Prize
9 September 2020 I feel that this is a good indicator of our deeply divisive polity that the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize is viewed as a partisan affair and not a national affair. That said, since it is not a Governmental Trust, naturally the coverage of the Prize was headlines when Congress or UPA was Read more
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Basic Structure of Social Matrix
7 September 2020 Yesterday a person passed away who was to through serendipity attach his name to one of the defining moments of Indian Constitutionalism, which bore his name- Keshavananda Bharati, a monk from Keralahttps://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/060920/kesavananda-bharati-petitioner-in-landmark-sc-judgement-passes-away.html, whose limited grouse about land reforms in Kerala was taken up by Nani Palkhiwala and turned into a legal effort Read more
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Degenerate Criminal Justice System
7 September 2020 Most of India simply would want nothing to do with a policeman or woman. Sorry, this is not a colonial era hatred or animosity seeping in from those revolutionary decades of struggle for freedom, a era when the most identifiable symbol of the British were the men in Khakhis. We are often Read more
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Academics in CoronaTimes
5 September 2020 Today is Teachers Day in India in memory and honour of Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan a philosopher and statesman who gave an impetus to the reading of Upanishads which in his opinion were part of the body of work in Sanskrit that offered the most enduring and secular insights to the earliest formulations Read more
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Sinicisation’s end: The Balkan Bind
4 September 2020 (This balkanised version of China is of 1970s vintage from a Free Tibet movement inspired website. It does not cater for Manchuria for obvious reasons) { This is a pure work of fiction. Resemblance to actual actors/players or countries is intended but not implied.} The situation was now clearing up, the Mandate Read more
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Xi-Modi: Matrix of Choices
2 September 2020 The fresh bout of clashes that took place on the intervening night of 29-30 August 2020 over the northern banks of Pongang Tso lake for which clear details are as yet sketchy, with many sources claiming that SFF Vikas commandoes repulsed the PLA in their attempt to dislodge them from two elevated Read more