5 December 2019 #CAB #NewIndia ‘We or Our Nationhood Defined’ is the title of a book written by RSS founder Golwalkar and it has a very simple construct that every state adheres to a religious affiliation and for this Indian subcontinental mass that is South Asia the predominance of Hinduism cannot be denied. So as […]
3 December 2019 #NewIndia #HamaraBajaj We all quite know that there is hardly any dignity left in public life. Still there are those moments when one takes a way of what is happening in India, from cues emerging from the ranks of those who are invested in public life. First off is Ms Mahua Moitra […]
29 November 2019 #NRCNationwide Is the national NRC simply going to reopen the question for Inspector Salim of blockbuster Sarfarosh, the wound of being told that this land is not his home? https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/it-is-difficult-to-imagine-a-sarfarosh-2-in-2019/cid/1688696 https://youtu.be/ob4XKar6Brk I would not have waded into this ongoing ‘hip hop’ acrobatic and trying to land on feet and finding one’s head […]
27 November 2019 #MahaNatak #MaharashtraGovernmentFormation If you ask folks on ground, they feel that this is Karnataka all over again in Maharashtra. They feel like Mr Yedurappa Mr Fadnavis was sworn in and resigned before facing the SC ordered Floor Test. They feel that like Karnataka this alliance of clear Anti BJP ism, for there […]
23 November 2019 No, it was not a surprise, in fact a Maharashtra observer and good friend had offered this heads up months ago, immediately after the results of the Lok Sabha elections were announced, that for the state assembly there would be an alliance between SS-NCP-INC. It seemed heretical to me, it was of […]
22 November 2019 #PolityParadigm The temptation to switch off from social media, to not pen any thing for a week was a mix of virtue and necessity. In times like this, when one has a purposive and poised power mongering as a seasonal flavour, a switch off like this could lead you to becoming a […]
10 November 2019 #How&FallOutOfAyodhyaVerdict Which ever way one looks at this, the judgement of the SC was an attempt to use the judiciary to bring about reconciliation and retribution as a form of justice for an issue that was clearly outside the four corners of legal determination. It showed how our Founding Fathers as members […]
9 November 2019 #SinoIndianContext #5GRollOut While the rest of the world continues to take a keen interest with all things Chinese, Indians have a hyphenation to contend with, a baggage of history to boot. There are several events in the recent past which can be called as schisms between two cultural behemoths and two nationhoods […]
8 November 2019 #BMKJ #JSR We are seeing the green shoots of people concerned with the fate of economy, something which apparently they had forgotten when they were consumed by other important business. We are seeing more people now taking ‘pot shots’ and trying to come to terms with the reality that has dashed their […]
6 November 2019 #IndiaDisabled #AmericanNationalSecurityInAnAgeOfLies How does one deal with the current gyrations of the Shiv Sena BJP alliance in Maharashtra? Or the Delhi Police agitation of yesterday that became a media obsession with labelling of a ‘mutiny’ of the police and so on? In fact, India seems suddenly to deflate from solidity of the […]
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