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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

26 February 2020 We will scarce believe that our stodgy diplomats allowed a foreign dignitary to visit India, hold a Electoral Rally type Stadium address, and then have a press conference without our executive counterpart, i.e. the PM of India and tick off all personal and private agendas of his visit while bagging $3 billion… Read more

22 February 2020 #CentralVista #NewIndia There is a popular saying that don’t fix it if it ain’t broke! Well, for what ever reasons, a big new fix is now emerging over Lutyens Delhi, which will not just alter the landscape of the Central Vista but will also directly affect the way India’s Departments dealing with… Read more

20 February 2020 #WomenEmpowerment One aspect of Government that has not changed is the bureaucratic buck transfer using the phrase ‘subjudice’. It must have weighed in if at all one wishes to translate Mr Modi’s grandstanding about ‘Nari Shakti’ by offering permanent posts to women officers in India’s Army, for our wonderment is otherwise not… Read more

15 February 2020 #Pulwama #ModifyingIndia Dr Abdul Kalam the charismatic late President and Missile Man would find that very befitting that Apple has taken his iconic ‘I have wings and I can fly! I can fly!’ message to the next generation of kids through its advertisement. What India had under Dr Kalam was a Presidency… Read more

12 February 2020 I had blogged about this earlier in ‘Beating Retreat’ a fortnight back, and it gives me no pleasure to be proved right. For those who know me, and for those who don’t, cynicism is the farthest thing that I would ever embrace, for I have been instilled in an inborn optimism that… Read more