23 August 2019 Many things are happening and as if all at once, first a series of articles in the aftermath of her book launch titled The Lost Decade, writer Puja Mehra is trending on twitter with a long thread in which she effectively proves what Jean Dreze said about the Indian economy, when Demonetisation […]
16 August 2019 What strikes most about PM Modi and his speeches is how he focusses on the larger optics of the occasion, through his impeccable dress sense, his posture, his arms flailing for added emphasis on occasions, and his delivery of punch lines- pungent and pointed. Unlike PMs before him, Mr Modi has no […]
14 August 2019 Many are the people who are persuaded as if the world was stuck in Time, when they harp on how ‘Nehru promised plebiscite to Kashmir’ as if it were written in stone. Firstly the idiocy of taking the name of Sardar Patel without the name of Nehru is a project equivalent of […]
13 August 2019 The world will not get much affected by the sudden death of Mr Jeffrey Epstein, more likely that after a few days, as now, the death of a primary sex trafficker and sexual predator on children will be viewed as one who escaped justice from the law. Many are likely to drum […]
Continued from https://indiarubbermancom.home.blog/the-unsettling-world-gandhian-view/?frame-nonce=ca8a1bbde2 11 August 2019 Just as India now uses ‘Yadum Ure…’by Kanniyan Ponkundranaarhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaniyan_Pungundranar and Vasudaiva Kutumbakam as Universal Acclamations to espouse her moral ascendency in the comity of nations, she also uses the now much hated Allama Iqbal’s ‘Sare Jehan Se Accha…’ to buttress her notions of being special. Many Indians erroneously think […]
9 August 2019 Today’s generation has no idea of what it was to belong to an ideology or a camp. For veterans of the World Wars and Cold War, it remains a painful, wistful reality that post Colonial Era which briefly saw for four decades the Communist versus Capitalist competition, is now witnessing the lack […]
8 August 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49261795 America had witnessed two back to back episodes of gun violence, which they term nowadays as ‘mass shootings’ and categorise them into ‘random’ or ‘hate’ crime category. So if you see the reports El Paso, Texas shooting that left 22 dead is a Hate Crime whereas the Dayton, Ohio one that […]
7 August 2019 No other personality evokes as much controversy as Drona’s son. Actually I constantly say this that only a person who does not know ‘tharka’ logic of Dharma can anoint the Awards for Teachers in India after Drona. Because Ashwatthama was to be Drona’s Achilles heel. First the offering of powdered rice water […]
6 August 2019 When the elections to the State Assembly got postponed it was clear that the moves on Article 370 were on, and it became increasingly secure to speculate on it when using the smokescreen of a security situation, when Pakistan is having a hard sell with the FATF regime to ensure funding, and […]
Kashmir has changed from once a province which rejected the two nation theory as a Muslim majority area that did not want to accede to Pakistan in contrast with the Muslims of Jammu and other areas in the Princely state at the time of partition, to now a clearly homegrown insurgency that has seen ascent […]
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