5 September 2020 Today is Teachers Day in India in memory and honour of Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan a philosopher and statesman who gave an impetus to the reading of Upanishads which in his opinion were part of the body of work in Sanskrit that offered the most enduring and secular insights to the earliest formulations […]
4 September 2020 (This balkanised version of China is of 1970s vintage from a Free Tibet movement inspired website. It does not cater for Manchuria for obvious reasons) { This is a pure work of fiction. Resemblance to actual actors/players or countries is intended but not implied.} The situation was now clearing up, the Mandate […]
2 September 2020 The fresh bout of clashes that took place on the intervening night of 29-30 August 2020 over the northern banks of Pongang Tso lake for which clear details are as yet sketchy, with many sources claiming that SFF Vikas commandoes repulsed the PLA in their attempt to dislodge them from two elevated […]
1 September 2020 On August 2, 2020, The Hindu ran a headline “ICMR fast-tracks approvals for Israeli research coordinated by DRDO”. https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/icmr-fast-tracks-approvals-for-israeli-research-coordinated-by-drdo/article32248603.eceFirstly no one quite understood why the DRDO was roped in for trials about some saliva based tests or therapeutic data concerning the ongoing Pandemic in India by Israeli scientists, when there is already […]
31 August 2020 [This article was written on 15 September 2018 and shelved because the book didn’t come out. So it is getting hosted because the book is now out.] Forgive me if you are an author Amish fan, for I am going to spoil your appetite for his forthcoming novel. I live in a […]
29 August 2020 Since the less than impressive snapshot of the world’s most powerful democracy made no bones about ‘tribalism’ which is supposedly the primitive instinct that drove homo sapiens to dominance on the planet when there were several species of homos, hominids and neanderthals, that White Humans or rather non Black Humans have been […]
28 August 2020 It is as if USA decided to treat itself to a preview premiere of sorts, with one series of events where first a black man ( yet again and in the midst of all this #BlackLivesMatter) was shot in the back when he was reaching out for something in his car, luckily […]
27 August 2020 There is considerable energy expended on social media, by users or account holders, as invested people, in trying to bring about expansions to ‘horizons’. In a Pandemic this would have been exactly what the Public Health Specialist would have ordered, a highly contextualised, personalised message delivered at the door of individual awareness […]
[How India’s domestic calculus must rise to the challenge of offering a solidity and institutional integrity in response to external Chinese aggression.] 24 August 2020 So we have the CDS mention that all options are on the table, including the military option as a last resort if ‘talks do not yield any results’! https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-has-military-options-to-deal-with-chinese-transgressions-if-talks-fail-cds-rawat/articleshow/77713462.cms?fbclid=IwAR3QIgRYO4Ym4FnbOGdIzhA4LnrylKOa0lt-h_wFOLXNTWj5oLrvgEJBvb4Actually I […]
24 August 2020 I am not proposing that Science and Evidence based standardised approach to any field must be allowed less exacting standards. Yet in times such as ours faced with a Post Truth World, it is important that we must push back and seen to be more aggressive in countering the False. I am […]
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