8 February 2022 If one did not visit the Deccan Plateau one would not be able to immerse themselves in the beauty of bare rock. As if a mystical landscape artist was teasing the sun or moon or even the stars, these craggy outcrops dot the plateau far and wide and for most parts are […]
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20 January 2022 Manufactured outrage is now the new spin. If one can trace the underpinnings of fascism, the call would end with the inevitable conclusion that places ‘revisionism’ and rank ‘nationalism’ were actually pillions to a larger sense of ‘victimhood’. It would seem that Democracy as we now practise it, would need clear safeguards […]
However much folksy wisdom may weigh in, the events of last year, that culminated in the insurgency at the Capitol which was thwarted by loss of life, presence of mind and stroke of divine probability, is actually a serious fracture in the compact of democracy as is practised through universal suffrage across the global commons […]
13 December 2021 If any thing, this much is clear that the new multiple variant corona that is carrying nearly 50 variations in the Spike Protein region of the virus, variations that were initially suspected to impart extreme virulence to the germ, but which now appears to impart the virus with the potential to become […]
28 November 21 It is very easy to say that women have been empowered. Many of so called civilisational barriers have no doubt been broken, the so called ‘glass ceiling’ including most recently when VP Harris was officiating as POTUS briefly when President Biden was under anaesthesia for a colonoscopy. We know that women have […]
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25 November 21 If one thought that vultures were integral to only Parsi Fire Temples, there is one documented secretive legend that comes from Tamil country, from a place called Thirukazhukundram. Folks of my grand parents generation used to regale us with stories about the temple, a bizarre and yet believable tale of a pair […]
4 November 2021 From almost the very start, the pull out of China from the high table for discussions on COP26 targets was like saying that there would be an examination with no compulsory attendance and whose results would have no bearing on the academic record! While the choice of Glasgow as the venue, where […]
16 September 2021 The world has seen a series of misses. Clear windows when if only humans had been better led and listened to, they would have had the window to prevent this Pandemic from becoming what it has. A little knowledge is dangerous is what Alfred Hitchcock whispered into audiences from his ‘The Man […]
07 September 2021 Yes, the attack in Auckland was unexpected as all observers of matters of this nature would concede, be they criminologists, social scientists, psychologists and political analysts. Of course, the actual events as they unfolded, revealed that the authorities in New Zealand were not caught unawares, rather, they were in anticipation, perhaps, in […]
03 September 2021 We have grown up hearing all work and no play makes Jack & Jill dull. ( The old phrase has been reworked to accommodate modern gender sensibilities, mind you!) So when you find that your country’s leading Tech export is from a company called Tencent and a game called PUBG, one famously […]
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