17 February 2021 A scam of novelty appears to have burst in the RW firmament. First was a conventional expose of RW Troll army led by an aspiring star Mr Kapil Mishra, against whom a conscience keeper Mr Harsh Mander has gone to the Delhi HC to get the police to register an FIR for […]
Category: Climate & Environmental Challenges
8 February 2021 What happened in Chamoli was ‘waiting’ to happen? https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/in-pics-massive-flooding-after-glacier-breaks-in-uttarakhand-2365205 We were quite sure that the glacier burst was something similar to the previous experience in Himachal involving the Sutlej, where a glacier melt and a mudslide had created a lake that burst and a wall of water bulldozed its way downstream in […]
1 February 2021 The flurry of administrative orders or executive orders that emanated from the White House have more or less reversed the direction of the American State within a fortnight. It demonstrated not how powerful a Presidency is in America after all, but to the larger world, it demonstrated a commitment upholding Biden Presidency, […]
26 January 2021 We first saw a brief glimpse of Jack Ma, that was on 20 January 2021, as if to offer an olive branch of sorts to the incoming Biden Administration. Yet, Xi’s China is not a suitor, trying to woo the US, which could well be Deng’s China back then in the 70s […]
02 January 2021 After centuries, the voice of a people long suppressed found mention. A people who had been wished away by the White Man were restored to the anthem of a continental nationhood that was constructed by this Western Compact, one that surprisingly evolved far differently than the smaller island colonies further south and […]
15 October 2020 What scientists are wholehearted in agreement is that our planet Earth has seen an unprecedented period called Halocene, which has seen what we call the seasons of climate that is quite common to all cultures. Of course, Upanishads do mention how initially there was no sense of time, and Death the Progenitor […]