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I Worry Tower!
31 May 19 Yesterday we saw clearly a change of guard, clearest ever signal of attendees at the PM swearing in representing the new ‘elite’ of India. An occasion for rising above the fray, above party politics was soured by the present of supposedly/allegedly slain BJP workers’ next of kin, only from West Bengal, which Read more
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Sordid & Morbid!
26 May 19 The political drama is being portrayed as kind of pre-scripted, whereas a cursory glance of even the headlines reveals that the May 2019 is a message being continually interpreted at a deep personally level by all the stake holders. First off, the winner of these strode like a colossus and yet appeared Read more
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TN Swing- What are the triggers?
25 May 2019 People are frothing over why this state rejected Mr Modi at the height of his persuasive powers. They wish to know if the ungodly ideology of the Dravidian parties ( all of whom are officially atheist) was the cause, was it the Hindi phobia the Congress-DMK whipped up to target gullible voters, Read more
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The Mandate
24 May 2019 Only a fool would still await to see some sliver of wisdom from the nitty gritty of numbers, even as results are still officially not cast in stone for this Lok Sabha. From the dogwhistles, taunts, memes and the macabre innuendo this 2019 campaign was devoid of any ‘pretence’ from the BJP, Read more
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The National Heartbeat
23 May 2019 Electoral results are meant to convey the national pulse like no other. In that sense, today for individuals, it is a great reflective opportunity to reset their social compass, if they must, or better still to set the True North on their cultural compass, based on values which they perceive has now Read more
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Rig-My Role: ECI-EVM Saga
22 May 19 For a nation accustomed to regular elections, with an ECI with its established authority and a judiciary where the canonical law existed on abuse of office under electoral code of conduct involving a candidate no less than the then Premier of India, what should have been rigmarole has become one of the Read more