22 April 2022 It was very rare for a reticent and former Prime Minister to write about India as being at the cross roads of global opportunities that arose from the flux that this global commons experiences in the face of Ukraine. Dr Manmohan Singh writes about the prospects of India as a peaceful democracy […]
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29 March 2022 The larger contours of this current conflict lie in what is simply an ‘understanding of history’. If the Russians view Ukraine as their ‘motherlode’ of culture, as once an integral part of Russia with Odessa rivalling St Petersburg, and the Russian Naval Fleet itself headquartered for centuries at Sevestapol and calling itself […]
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 […]
There is only so much a polity can pursue at a given time, so currently from the issues of the status of Kashmir, the SC has decided to take up the issue of Prime Minister’s Security, while also accepting a plea regarding the ‘hate speech’ aspect of the Dharam Sansads that sprouted across Gangetic India, […]
15 December 2021 There is always so much to deliberate about the vivisection of India as a composite commons into a partition of Islamic and ‘secular’ Hindu majority state by the British when they offered her Independence. There are volumes written about the aftermath of Partition, the deadly dance of death that visited the subcontinent […]
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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 […]
31 August 2021 There has been a need to examine India, as a #NewIndia project, with the subject of symbolism, only because, the partisan nature of polity there, appears to have reached unscaled peaks hitherto fore. Whether it was the Statue of Unity Project, or the Central Vista project, or even earlier in less divisive […]
15 August 2021 In the 75 years of her existence as a modern Western Democracy, India has done creditably for herself, as a force for stability not just within, but without. One cannot imagine the outcome in East Pakistan, in Sri Lanka, Nepal or Maldives in any manner different than how it panned out after […]
13 August 2021 There was a time, when apparently, the first instance of outsourcing was when the White Man came to tame the wilderness and the wild, cultivate culture amongst those who remained till then beyond the pale of culture, in lands that were peopled by what now modern correctness terms as ‘First Nations’. When […]
4 August 2021 Continuing with this vein of strategic rigidity, from Afghanistan’s Taliban woes, we can shift toward how the last seven years has been a series of mixed events, opportunities that were offered by the arrival on the national stage by Mr Modi as a person with no baggage, and his audacious attempt to […]
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