5 November 2019 #OddEven #DelhiSmog If ever there was a more sardonic cabal on stage, it is yet to be mounted. Folks are out in full force, testing the patience of the sane and the simple, in New Delhi and its neighbourhood. It is again that time of year when the smog grips the NCR […]
31 October 2019 Despite my own inertia to revisit the situation, today is important, because it is the day when the Government of India’s Presidential Proclamations on the beleaguered state come into force. The large state with contiguous borders and watershed lines making it strategic geographically and geologically, is now going to be slit and […]
#MaharashtraHaryanaPolls #Modimagic #RahulGandhi The elections to crucial Maharastra and adjoining Haryana will not affect the ground situation in Delhi. For the ruling dispensation has not suffered major reversal, managing to stay ahead of the ballot joust. Look at Mr Modi, and he is right that Diwali has come early for BJP. He is very right […]
#BMC #ExitPollsMaharastraHaryana 22 October 2019 It is rather strange that we are now again thinking of EVMs because two states where there is evidence of anti incumbency have offered through exit polls a peak of an overwhelming evidence of affirmative support for incumbent and cornered governments in Haryana and Maharashtra. Actually people do not have […]
19 October 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-50084090 I was first waiting for 19 October to pass, for by day’s end we will know which way the UK Parliament is going to deal with the Boris Johnson clinched EU Exit Deal for Brexit. Luckily the new deal has just one added decision with respect to Ireland and one feels […]
17 October 2019 We have finally finished with the judicial drama of a series of pleadings and arguments on the vexed issue of a temple for Rama. Note that what I lay out is a series of points that are meant for understanding of not just the context, but also for the legal aspects of […]
15 October 2019 The Nobel equivalent prize for Economics was announced last evening, it had an Indian origin American professor of MIT, A Banerjee as one of the winners. The three of them Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kramer won the Nobel for innovative use of Randomised Control Trials, for methods to prove economic […]
14 October 2019 #MahabalipuramIndoChinaSummitry When was the last time a Chinese President toasted India to a 100 year relationship? Even in the heady Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai days we have not seen a declaration by any Chinese leader, leave alone one who is more powerful than even Chairman Mao in the manner in which constitutionally President Xi […]
12 October 2019 For a person who insists that we must use the past merely as guidance and inspiration and not at all as rhetoric or evidence of our supposed entitlement in the present, I was full of reminiscences of my own visits to the temples and caves of what we called ‘Mahabs’! In my […]
The world has moved on and like silly nostalgic folk who refuse to see the altering landscape or the proverbial writing on the wall, we are unable to quite understand what is happening to us and our precious political ecosystem, one in which we carried out our silly notions of moral power, through fasts and […]
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