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Corona Chronicles: Spotlight on the Political hijack
1 September 2020 On August 2, 2020, The Hindu ran a headline “ICMR fast-tracks approvals for Israeli research coordinated by DRDO”. https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/icmr-fast-tracks-approvals-for-israeli-research-coordinated-by-drdo/article32248603.eceFirstly no one quite understood why the DRDO was roped in for trials about some saliva based tests or therapeutic data concerning the ongoing Pandemic in India by Israeli scientists, when there is already Read more
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Creating histories: The new rage in India.
31 August 2020 [This article was written on 15 September 2018 and shelved because the book didn’t come out. So it is getting hosted because the book is now out.] Forgive me if you are an author Amish fan, for I am going to spoil your appetite for his forthcoming novel. I live in a Read more
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Structural Basis of All that is Wrong!
29 August 2020 Since the less than impressive snapshot of the world’s most powerful democracy made no bones about ‘tribalism’ which is supposedly the primitive instinct that drove homo sapiens to dominance on the planet when there were several species of homos, hominids and neanderthals, that White Humans or rather non Black Humans have been Read more
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A Snap Shot of All that is Wrong!
28 August 2020 It is as if USA decided to treat itself to a preview premiere of sorts, with one series of events where first a black man ( yet again and in the midst of all this #BlackLivesMatter) was shot in the back when he was reaching out for something in his car, luckily Read more
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Scoffing or Snarling is not skepticism
27 August 2020 There is considerable energy expended on social media, by users or account holders, as invested people, in trying to bring about expansions to ‘horizons’. In a Pandemic this would have been exactly what the Public Health Specialist would have ordered, a highly contextualised, personalised message delivered at the door of individual awareness Read more
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Stalemate that calls for stable mates!
[How India’s domestic calculus must rise to the challenge of offering a solidity and institutional integrity in response to external Chinese aggression.] 24 August 2020 So we have the CDS mention that all options are on the table, including the military option as a last resort if ‘talks do not yield any results’! https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-has-military-options-to-deal-with-chinese-transgressions-if-talks-fail-cds-rawat/articleshow/77713462.cms?fbclid=IwAR3QIgRYO4Ym4FnbOGdIzhA4LnrylKOa0lt-h_wFOLXNTWj5oLrvgEJBvb4Actually I Read more