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27 January 2020 There was a time when Padma Awards had become a bone of political contention, seen to be an anathema to the ethos of a Republic and the advancement of a equal citizenship sans titles. In fact, the awards were abolished in the immediate aftermath of the Emergency, when many of the leading […]

25 January 2020 #TrumpImpeachmentTrial Half a world away, in USA the most significant claw back of our times is under way. Truth is now attempting to ear worm its way back to the Consciousness of America, a weak yet willing attempt, through the Democrats campaign to Impeach President Trump. Why is this so significant when […]

21 January 2020 #NeoCapitalism # DarkWeb At this moment, the events that are uppermost are the least of our concerns. We have Delhi Police officially Tweeting to the general public to vacate Shaheen Bagh as a protest arena as it is causing traffic hassles to general public and to school children, we have a petition […]

20 January 2020 There are strands that reveal that the Government is flustered. Hence it is trying out various flanks, like using Niti Ayog Vice Chair to accuse Kashmiris of using the internet for porn, even as Kashmiris complain that the new sanitised list of internet sites that they can access does not allow even […]

17 January 2020 #Kashmir #Article370 I am no Kalhana though I feel that the archives that are the history of Kashmir must be continued from where he left off…for the Vitasta continues to flow, the Neelum and Jhelum do, his land that once enthroned the great seeker Lalithaditya is now riven with divisions and just […]

15 January 2020 We can say that the presser held on the eve of the Army Day today by the new Chief General Naravane was a clear attempt to sort of reboot the narrative of the Army. What the solid soldiering General stressed was allegiance to the Constitution of India, going as far as to […]

13 January 2020 Now that Iran has accepted responsibility for downing an Ukrainian passenger jet within minutes of its take off from Teheran, the international aviation community needs to revisit the tenets of how it reacts to volatile situations and prevents incidents of the nature that occurred in Teheran and the downing of a Air […]

11 January 2020 It is now widely accepted that India’s numbers are her new plague. Now fairly most discussions in the public domain do not skirt around whether we are in ‘recession’ or our economic performance is underwhelming or that we are staring at an abyss whose depth and dangers are unfathomable to us, because […]

9 January 2020 This is a time when being a dead poet is as dangerous as being one struggling to place rhymes on a string! Eking out a literary living is proving to be something of a ‘cat on hot tin roof’ experience, with so many somersaults and paw tip straddling and balancing that still […]

7 January 2020 #Suleimani Few people with any sense of what is happening in our world  would be making sense of what the Iraqi PM informed Parliament, that the convoy targeting that killed General Suleimani along with an Iraqi leader was actually coming back proposals for a new detente for Saudi Arabia. A vote followed […]