4 August 2019 Are the bets really off? What does one make of the series of moves reported even in international media now underway in Kashmir? A government otherwise working to make Yatras more comfortable and taking initiatives to project yatra as legitimate concerns of majority of its citizens, closing National Highways and actually hiring […]
2 August 2019 In a day extraordinaire the Apex Court of India took notice on its own ( Suo Moto) of the petitions by Unnao Rape victim to intervene and provide justice, after the latest outrage against the victim where she is now struggling for life in an ICU, after a road accident. The powerful […]
https://www.livemint.com/politics/news/business-failures-should-not-be-a-taboo-sitharaman-on-v-g-siddhartha-s-death-1564668732065.html 2 August 2019 It is ironic that one needs to borrow this word to express a notion of ‘Aram’ or even Dharma. ‘Karpu’ is a pristine meaning quite incapable of being divvied, but my morning tryst with keys is to decode this somehow for the reader. Why must one muse over the word that […]
1 August 2019 Who did not grow up having fond memories of Cafe Cofee Day? Why could not VG Siddhartha the founder promoter and boss of CCD go the Ramalinga Raju way, of confessing and allowing the law to take it’s course?What excesses or oversights or acts of wanton cleverness make him contrite and deem […]
24 July 2019 I would not have skipped the headlines of Trump’s offer of mediation itself, as I did, but for the fact that these days. even Shashi Tharoor could be caught on the wrong footing. His ready comment of how India had a stated position, that India’s foreign policy tenets would never have offered […]
23 July 2019 What ever else it may signal, the unmistakable message here was the waning of Western Power in a rather precipitous manner! First we don’t quite know what the British were thinking when the Royal Navy intercepted an Iranian tanker headed out of the Mediterranean in the Gibraltar, accusing it of supplying oil […]
21 July 2019 Arguably she was everyone’s aunty, the late Sheila Dikshit, formidable political heavyweight who managed to rule Delhi for three terms across two different political alignments and hostile judicial environment and came to her own legacy, that one of the best tributes for her was by Mr Sudheendra Kulkarni, who lamented that unlike […]
17 July 2019 We are witness to the fracas over the import of MLAs and their fungible loyalty, over the last five years. Even more acutely we also see how the biggest exporter of political talent from the various political parties is the Congress Party to the BJP, in a manner that back of hand […]
13 July 2019 The only way one can look at Supreme Court proceedings in context of our politics is how and why repeated the matters are heard without imposing prohibitive costs on those parties, mostly the Union Government that wastes the time of the Courts, just because it is politically expedient. If one looks at […]
12 July 2019 Since Ms Sitaraman chose not to read out the numbers, one had deferred judgement on the content and intent of the budget proposals. Of course, government led think tanks and their acolytes have made Ms Sitaraman’s proposals a heady success, many calling her as conforming to the larger grandness of Mr Modi’s […]
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