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06 July 19 This is not the final verdict on the budget, but I could not follow it to the exacting manner that a clear view of its intents and purposes has been established other than the semantics of dispensing with the ‘briefcase’ and calling it ‘ledger of accounts’-Bahi Katha! People forget the last time Read more

05 July 19 Easter Sunday bombings have led to increase in isolation of Muslim communities in Sri Lanka as per some reports, there were definitely clashes between Buddhists and Muslims and Muslims and Christians which were isolated and was somehow contained and not allowed to become another national emergency for the island nation. (https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/06/06/sri-lanka-responds-to-islamist-terrorism-by-terrorising-muslims) While Read more

04 July 19 The dramatic manner in which President Trump assured Americans that his administration will work around the Supreme Court order that kept citizenship question from the Census Questionnaire, was in absolute contrast to how quietly an official of the Justice Department and an official in charge of the Census informed Americans that the Read more

02 July 19 While Indian liberals mull over what they describe as a ‘state of undeclared emergency’ where admittedly they had a faustian bargain with the UPA and feel abandoned in the NDA, they can take a leaf out of Hong Kong as a civil resistance that shows what ordinary people are capable of, if Read more

01 July 19 Predominantly saffron/ orange hues of the jerseys the Indians wore became a matter for the media to discuss. Why? Because some Congress legislator as an MLA made a reference to this as an answer to a question, his fears being whether the tricolour was being replaced in national consciousness by saffron! Actually Read more

27 June 19 A purely political pickle would have ingredients that would be slow poison curing the dross to a finesse. No one quite saw the current grasp the RSS has on India’s polity even as late as 1992, even as later as 2002, and even as latest as 2014. Still, the only way to Read more