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7 February 2020 It was bound to happen. Just when people were promised honesty and humility by a chastised President, Trump came out to revel in his Senate Acquittal in a fashion that was beyond brazen. Not only did he trash Mitt Romney a very senior senator and Republican who once ran for President for Read more

5 February 2020 https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/02/04/pete-buttigieg-speech-iowa-caucus-sot-vpx.cnn It is uncanny how Trump is going to hammer a message to Americans about Democrats using Iowa. How many Americans feel that the rank incompetence and chaos of the Democrat Primary in Iowa is for them a clear indication to keep Trump II as an option. Of course, we know that Read more

3 February 2020 #BlueprintForNewIndia I juggled between number crunching and whether roughly the numbers back the intent or content of the Budget Speech that emerged from the Bahikatha this year. I decided that numbers would mean preparing a table, paring it down, and I am not upto a presentation of the Budget in any case. Read more

3 February 2020 The Budget was changed by Mr Jaitley, when he changed the date, when the Railway Budget was subsumed into the National Budget.The major changes were not these, the major changes were how normal bills got converted into money bills, like the one that brought in Electoral Bonds for Political party financing, or Read more

1 February 2020 #WoodAreLovelyDarkAndDeep #RobertFrost ‘I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep’…There are not many more such evocative phrases that readers have recalled in their memories and lives, as the one I began with. It is recorded that Nehru had recalled these very words in his Diary or Book of Read more

30 January 2020 Today is the day when in 1948, Mr Godse managed to kill the Mahatma finally. On this day years ago, that light was snuffed out, which had threatened to at one time consume us with its compassion and its moral authority until it reached a ripe age of 125! India had and Read more