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17 October 2019 We have finally finished with the judicial drama of a series of pleadings and arguments on the vexed issue of a temple for Rama. Note that what I lay out is a series of points that are meant for understanding of not just the context, but also for the legal aspects of Read more

15 October 2019 The Nobel equivalent prize for Economics was announced last evening, it had an Indian origin American professor of MIT, A Banerjee as one of the winners. The three of them Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kramer won the Nobel for innovative use of Randomised Control Trials, for methods to prove economic Read more

14 October 2019 #MahabalipuramIndoChinaSummitry When was the last time a Chinese President toasted India to a 100 year relationship? Even in the heady Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai days we have not seen a declaration by any Chinese leader, leave alone one who is more powerful than even Chairman Mao in the manner in which constitutionally President Xi Read more

12 October 2019 For a person who insists that we must use the past merely as guidance and inspiration and not at all as rhetoric or evidence of our supposed entitlement in the present, I was full of reminiscences of my own visits to the temples and caves of what we called ‘Mahabs’! In my Read more

The world has moved on and like silly nostalgic folk who refuse to see the altering landscape or the proverbial writing on the wall, we are unable to quite understand what is happening to us and our precious political ecosystem, one in which we carried out our silly notions of moral power, through fasts and Read more

3 October 2019 It is only in the last few decades actually, that human values have been enshrined in legal cannon, values that we today individually would like to take for granted. Values that now allow us to declare insolvency and not be subjected to bondage to redeem debts for starters! Values that allow us Read more