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Capital Move:Jakarta to Balikpapan
27 August 2019 The Indonesians do not have the history of Tuglak. That is why their decision to move from Jakarta as the Capital of their administrative, financial and seat of government set up to this coastal area in Borneo, some 1400 miles away from the present centre which is also in Java, traditionally the… Read more
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Torment or tactic- HongKong Impasse
26 August 2019 What exactly are the goals now of the agitators? We know that the initial resistance was mounted over a provision to deport Hong Kong residents to mainland China for transgressions, which by itself could have been allowed to remain on the statute for prosecution of crimes based on location where the crime… Read more
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An Economy of Perception
23 August 2019 Many things are happening and as if all at once, first a series of articles in the aftermath of her book launch titled The Lost Decade, writer Puja Mehra is trending on twitter with a long thread in which she effectively proves what Jean Dreze said about the Indian economy, when Demonetisation… Read more
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An Underwhelming Rumble- Search for a Legacy for Mr Modi!
16 August 2019 What strikes most about PM Modi and his speeches is how he focusses on the larger optics of the occasion, through his impeccable dress sense, his posture, his arms flailing for added emphasis on occasions, and his delivery of punch lines- pungent and pointed. Unlike PMs before him, Mr Modi has no… Read more
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Swallows and Summers!
14 August 2019 Many are the people who are persuaded as if the world was stuck in Time, when they harp on how ‘Nehru promised plebiscite to Kashmir’ as if it were written in stone. Firstly the idiocy of taking the name of Sardar Patel without the name of Nehru is a project equivalent of… Read more
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Matter of Custody
13 August 2019 The world will not get much affected by the sudden death of Mr Jeffrey Epstein, more likely that after a few days, as now, the death of a primary sex trafficker and sexual predator on children will be viewed as one who escaped justice from the law. Many are likely to drum… Read more