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17 March 2020 #ChallengesToDemocracy For some time now, a few have noticed a pattern between the RSS-BJP combine and the way the Neo Republicans have been functioning. I am impressed by a Democrat writing about ‘UnTrumping’ America,(https://www.amazon.com/Trumping-America-Plan-Democracy-Again/dp/1538733552) and would expect some one eminently suited for it like Shashi Tharoor MP to take up writing a Read more

14 March 2020 #IdesOfMarch #Covid19 #CoronaPandemic No one knows for sure, but historical assumption does not rule out the role disease of epidemic nature from altering the course of nation states and awarded them premature end to their run or pedestal to start a home run from. In modern times that we live in, many Read more

12 March 2020 Irony could have blushed with how we use the term ‘Viral’ these days and completely lost it when confronted with an actual virus! Remember how much of January and February of 2020 was European and American grand standing, trying to put down China as she struggled with the Covid-19 contagion from Wuhan? Read more

11 March 2020 Since the Shah-Modi team are fond of spectacle, we saw the carefully orchestrated drama on Holi of Mr Jyotiraditya Scindia finally leave the INC by resigning his primary membership of the party in a letter addressed to interim President Ms Sonia Gandhi dated 9 March but delivered on the 10th. If this Read more

8 March 2020 In memory, we have never been so extensively documented as a social network since this advent of internet of things and social media. One of the biggest plusses of this advent has been how mainstream media can place us no longer in peril, can even list and plunge head-on like the Titanic Read more

27 February 2020 #ShaheenBagh #DelhiRiots2020 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-citizenship-protests-survivor/a-mob-out-for-blood-indias-protests-pit-hindus-against-muslims-idUSKCN20K2V8 We can say that there is a lot of heartening events happening on ground in what is now Battleground Delhi! That unlike even 1984 or 2002, or the Rwandan model, neighbours are still that, neighbours, and daring even to come around as a coalition of the good and willing Read more