15 February 2020 #Pulwama #ModifyingIndia Dr Abdul Kalam the charismatic late President and Missile Man would find that very befitting that Apple has taken his iconic ‘I have wings and I can fly! I can fly!’ message to the next generation of kids through its advertisement. What India had under Dr Kalam was a Presidency […]
12 February 2020 I had blogged about this earlier in ‘Beating Retreat’ a fortnight back, and it gives me no pleasure to be proved right. For those who know me, and for those who don’t, cynicism is the farthest thing that I would ever embrace, for I have been instilled in an inborn optimism that […]
10 February 2020 For a long time, humans have waged a less than equal war forever against the unknown that claimed lives by wasting the human body in a short span of time. The fact of how quarantine was the only known technique to prevent the further loss of populations when such outbreaks happen is […]
7 February 2020 It was bound to happen. Just when people were promised honesty and humility by a chastised President, Trump came out to revel in his Senate Acquittal in a fashion that was beyond brazen. Not only did he trash Mitt Romney a very senior senator and Republican who once ran for President for […]
5 February 2020 https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/02/04/pete-buttigieg-speech-iowa-caucus-sot-vpx.cnn It is uncanny how Trump is going to hammer a message to Americans about Democrats using Iowa. How many Americans feel that the rank incompetence and chaos of the Democrat Primary in Iowa is for them a clear indication to keep Trump II as an option. Of course, we know that […]
3 February 2020 #BlueprintForNewIndia I juggled between number crunching and whether roughly the numbers back the intent or content of the Budget Speech that emerged from the Bahikatha this year. I decided that numbers would mean preparing a table, paring it down, and I am not upto a presentation of the Budget in any case. […]
3 February 2020 The Budget was changed by Mr Jaitley, when he changed the date, when the Railway Budget was subsumed into the National Budget.The major changes were not these, the major changes were how normal bills got converted into money bills, like the one that brought in Electoral Bonds for Political party financing, or […]
1 February 2020 #WoodAreLovelyDarkAndDeep #RobertFrost ‘I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep’…There are not many more such evocative phrases that readers have recalled in their memories and lives, as the one I began with. It is recorded that Nehru had recalled these very words in his Diary or Book of […]
30 January 2020 Today is the day when in 1948, Mr Godse managed to kill the Mahatma finally. On this day years ago, that light was snuffed out, which had threatened to at one time consume us with its compassion and its moral authority until it reached a ripe age of 125! India had and […]
29 January 2020 Today the news paper is full of mixed feelings for a diehard optimist. It seems that the cup of disappointment runneth over for now. Whatever caused our world to descend into dystopia so swiftly? Where is that gung-ho festive mood of electoral games that once characterised our chaotic but colourful election seasons? […]
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