8 April 2019 If there is any central theme of this elections, it is the least bit about the much bandied ‘civilisational clash’, as if this were a wrestling bout for the moral high ground, apparently a campaign for the ‘conscience of India’, a struggle for her soul! Pray, do not be persuaded by such […]
8 April 2019 We are living in such times that now ‘political correctness’ made our humour tepid and our gossip colourless. The usual ‘sardarji’ or ‘thambi’ jokes proved to be not in sync with the mass sense of proportion and balance and the only territory that seemed available was the gender based jokes where we […]
The WHO has set an ambitious target for it, repeated this goal as its World Health Day slogan for the second year in a row, and emphasised that within the decade, i.e. by 2030 we need to get there. The goal is ambitious because unlike previous emphasis on preventive care and targeted goals for diseases, […]
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Tenor of choice:
We as a people are often unable to hold back and speak up or out, and that is when the inner demons get revealed. I felt in a strange coincidence, three different persons were being attacked for basically the same reasons. The views they expressed were not in sync with the majority sentiment, and of […]
Fresh from watching a movie like LKG, which is a Tamil movie about as current on political milieu as Google, I can say that we are walking up to smell our filter coffees! It is really curious to see how a sometimes cliched and sometimes inspiring script can get your goat, with the central theme […]
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Mission Shakti-Search for truth!
2 April 2019 Do we really need a debate over capabilities which we hope we will never actually deploy? Strategic affairs discourse in India has been repeatedly derailed because of a stance that we have, based on our ‘Hindu’ identity of being a peace loving people, incapable of animosity or military bearing in a world […]
1 April 2019 Somewhere along the path to development, between when India was a struggling third world country and when she became an economy in PPP terms and in real terms to be reckoned as within the G20, India’s mindset and her approach to health care changed. It is surprising that this mindset change was […]
31 March 2019 There is apparently no sense of proportion? It seems our post millennial world of the last two decades is such a riot of data, meta data as we call it, that humans are unable to make sense of how these strands relate to them and how they seem poorly equipped to handle […]
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New Winds of Change:AOC
30 March 2019 I would never have found a first time congresswoman and that too representing New York (14th District) coming from a background like hers to be a subject of such interest. But here I am following her speeches and reading about her Green New Deal and her questioning of modern capitalism with its […]
It is funny that Mr Sekhar Gupta should have authored that piece(https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/opinion-what-the-iaf-paf-dogfight-reveals/story-dDa4H38Xtq7LPnj6DtkZRN.html) about how India’s air capability had denuded between 1999 and 2019, in the wake of the Balakot Strikes and the response of the PAF the next day which saw our Wing Commander chute down over POK. Our Abhinandan was visible, thanks to Pakistani […]
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