3 January 2020 #Suleimani First let us be very clear that no world war is going to start over the capital strike that killed the head of Iran’s special Intelligence and covert operations chief Major General Suleimani.(https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/baghdad-airport-strike-live-intl-hnk/h_0be255a08b898f0fd737f7d19076a060) Iran have already named his deputy as the next one to helm the operations, shows how the Islamic […]
31 December 2019 Was this Annulus Horribilis? How do you view a year that started with the death of four dozen CRPF personnel in Pulwama and ended with the death of more than two dozen citizens in UP? How do you look at the year ending Mann Ki Baat by PM Modi as he eloquently […]
Government has announced two major reshuffles in the form of restructuring of Railways and Defence Ministry. The Railways are clearly in need of reforms, they needed a hiving off into separate stand alone companies with Passenger, freight and infrastructure elements, and to have a regulatory body that would look into safety and accident investigations. The […]
24 December 2019 I start with this headline as topic not because I am trying to retort to Mr Tejaswi Surya MP for his mention in the Town Hall at Bengaluru, where this reference came in context of ‘othering’ the opponents of the CAA and NRC. I am trying to piece together a journey of […]
23 December 2019 Suddenly it appears that the plot has not been just lost, but the henchmen themselves have been left hanging out to dry! O’ not once but thrice and perhaps more, Mr Modi chose to decry the NRC. He listed the SC as the main culprit forcing his government to undertake the NRC […]
16 December 2019 This is the age of intemperance. We saw it in the public rallies where crowds cheer-led mass politicos who are in office and without, we saw it in literary festival where a veteran and a foreign subject expert clashed in sylvan surroundings, we can see in how the riot police stepped in […]
12 December 2019 It is actually an acerbic way to characterise any person who has changed his/her opinion after events, for one expects a rational person to become wiser after exposure to events, critically appraising them. What on the national level was evident, that only Mr Rahul Gandhi was voicing his concerns, sometimes crudely, sometimes […]
10 December 2019 #CAB #MuslimExclusionBill The NDA has been the creator of much of confusions in the Act with Amendments of 2003 and 2015 and now this proposed Amendment. Largely Indian citizenship is ‘based on bloodlines’ unlike other countries which are based on ‘residency and place of birth’, and for a country where documentation is […]
#CAB The debate is raging over a Citizenship Amendment Bill that was introduced into the Lok Sabha by 293 votes, which means that it carried the numbers going forward for it to be passed in normal voting. Is this being brought as a Constitutional Amendment Bill? Is this targeting the minority communities, or is this […]
6 December 2019 Humour is the best form of offence and defence, there is nothing like a self deprecatory remark or an admission of ignorance to deflate a heated argument or tight situation of verbal duels! Parliamentary exchanges are recorded as some of the best sources of humour, where a healthy repartee and a pun […]
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