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17 April 2020 I am not one for speeches, however, the two interactions, if you can call them that by PM Modi and Mr Rahul Gandhi, were simply too apart to compare. I don’t buy it when people take pole positions on their latest rounds, on the PM on 14 April and on Mr Gandhi Read more

15 April 2020 –Capitalising Corona Virus Contagion It is very difficult indeed to keep away from Coronavirus and the developing scenario world wide with cases topping 2 million. However with nearly 125000 deaths world wide and a mortality of 21% of known outcomes, there is a great degree of surrealism that surrounds the entire exercise Read more

14 April 2020 Never have so many owed so much to so few…these lines echo across times commemorating the great sacrifice of men and women of honour who wore a uniform and sacrificed everything for their flag. Of course, in modernity and recorded history, these words were uttered by Sir Winston Churchill on 20 August Read more

11 April 2020 There is a simple issue now, which is age old, with adage that goes like this- a remedy worse than the malady. So increasingly as the lockdown bites on economies world over, experts, industrial leaders are calling for a review, crying for a course correction even as Easter Sunday is upon us! Read more

8 April 2020 We are now well past these debates about testing. As in the ICMR policy guidelines and an approach based on tracing contacts of infected cases and trying to seal off the infection. We know now when a postman from a rural hamlet in Odisha tests positive or a tea vendor near Matoshree Read more

3 April 2020 CNN host Mr Cuomo said categorically that he did not want to look the numbers in the eye! He didn’t want to hear of it at all. This while hosting his show from the basement of his house where he had been confined to, after testing positive for Covid19! So what makes Read more