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14 June 19 There are many parables that describe the same moral ending. A witness imagines that he is undergoing a neutral event, and finds in the end that the event has grown disproportionately to drag him/her into its vortex! The classical story is of how Kalidasa was actually a dumbo sitting on a branch Read more

13 June 19 Hate can consume us is something that our epics, our elders and our psychologists can always tell us. What we are now witnessing is how despite being a failed economy and a country in strife, as a neighbour Pakistan occupies disproportionate weight in Indian mindset, purely out of this angst and hatred Read more

12 June 19 The news of the former CEA expressing his academic authority through a formal paper published in academic abroad, which debunked largely the statistical exercise carried out by India when he was very much in government. Peers and those who claim to be in the know, say that Mr Arvind Subramaniam had conveyed Read more

6 June 2019 Two separate threads both linked to Bengaluru engage me closely, the first being how the INC never learnt their history correct and how the Nandan Nilakeni input confirms some thing I always have been saying about Mr Rahul. The second is about how an unseemly row has erupted over ISKCON’s Akshaya Patra Read more

4 June 2019 In what can be called almost duplicitous, the manner in which suddenly a spate of bad news on the economic front hit India cornered the attention of many an inflamed columnist. Crying over spilt milk is not wise, especially if the milk were the stuff that Drona had offered to Aswaththama, more Read more

01 June 19 The flurry of economics related news that emerged on the aftermath of the swearing in ceremony at New Delhi was likely to be orchestrated. After all, at a time when some were vociferously arguing that every thing was hunky dory and Modi 2.0 needed more the same, there were others who without Read more