14 May 2019 In my assessment of the Easter Sunday Blasts that rocked the island straddling coast to coast, I had hinted at a more deeper sinister plot of polarising and alluded to other events in the larger South Asian context, including several such incidents under investigation in India. So if one saw now the […]
10 May 19 We all know the parable where an Arab was halted for the night in a windy night over the dunes, when his camel asked him if it could keep its head snug inside the tent! Then the camel extends to itself the hospitality of the tent and when it enters the tent […]
8 May 2019 “Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that’s all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.” Justice Felix Frankfurter US SC. This quote I chanced upon in a discussion of the legal community […]
6 May 2019 (Honest disclaimer- It has been more than a year since I stopped watching any news on TV, and I am trying to develop a taste for ‘Editorji’ an app based news media headed by Vikram Chandra.) The thing about our Post Truth world is how each of us feels that this is […]
5 May 2019 Just when you thought you had seen it all, this season comes across like a Mahabharata, Vyasa narrating one story at multiple levels, about how difficult it is to practise Dharma and how nuanced it remains to accept it! When Draupadi asks the Sages why Dharma deserted them in the Hall of […]
4 May 2019 Political morality appeared to be an oxymoron once, and then for reasons perhaps of consolidation and trench warfare, political morality seemed to surface, especially after the Bommai Judgement, where the Supreme Court clearly ruled that assemblies will get to test their support on floor of the house, and this along with the […]
03 May 19 The Barr testimony is on, and that is not what makes this tragic headline. William Barr Attorney General of USA, when he issued that four page apology of a synopsis about the Mueller report, which now has been contested by the special prosecutor himself, and his deposition to the Congress denying and […]
2 May 2019 News broke out that China had sought to concede on Masood Azhar resolution which it had placed on technical hold for couple of months, a resolution it had vetoed earlier in the UNSC, one brought in by France after Pulwama happened. For some reasons an immature Indian media played on it as […]
27 April 19 From 2014, those heady months leading up to May, to now, there are crucial differences. It is for us to notice or ignore these, the first crucial one is the lack of any anger now against the Congress Party, which has been viewed by people as the natural party of India’s social […]
27 April 2019 The news of Iran being declared off limits for oil imports crept in surreptitiously as if the Model Code of Conduct applied to bad international news. Anywhere between 01 to 02 litres of every ten litres of crude comes from the Persian Gulf to India’s refineries. It has its ripple effect, being […]
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