27 February 2020 #ShaheenBagh #DelhiRiots2020 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-citizenship-protests-survivor/a-mob-out-for-blood-indias-protests-pit-hindus-against-muslims-idUSKCN20K2V8 We can say that there is a lot of heartening events happening on ground in what is now Battleground Delhi! That unlike even 1984 or 2002, or the Rwandan model, neighbours are still that, neighbours, and daring even to come around as a coalition of the good and willing […]
26 February 2020 We will scarce believe that our stodgy diplomats allowed a foreign dignitary to visit India, hold a Electoral Rally type Stadium address, and then have a press conference without our executive counterpart, i.e. the PM of India and tick off all personal and private agendas of his visit while bagging $3 billion […]
22 February 2020 #CentralVista #NewIndia There is a popular saying that don’t fix it if it ain’t broke! Well, for what ever reasons, a big new fix is now emerging over Lutyens Delhi, which will not just alter the landscape of the Central Vista but will also directly affect the way India’s Departments dealing with […]
20 February 2020 #WomenEmpowerment One aspect of Government that has not changed is the bureaucratic buck transfer using the phrase ‘subjudice’. It must have weighed in if at all one wishes to translate Mr Modi’s grandstanding about ‘Nari Shakti’ by offering permanent posts to women officers in India’s Army, for our wonderment is otherwise not […]
15 February 2020 #Pulwama #ModifyingIndia Dr Abdul Kalam the charismatic late President and Missile Man would find that very befitting that Apple has taken his iconic ‘I have wings and I can fly! I can fly!’ message to the next generation of kids through its advertisement. What India had under Dr Kalam was a Presidency […]
12 February 2020 I had blogged about this earlier in ‘Beating Retreat’ a fortnight back, and it gives me no pleasure to be proved right. For those who know me, and for those who don’t, cynicism is the farthest thing that I would ever embrace, for I have been instilled in an inborn optimism that […]
10 February 2020 For a long time, humans have waged a less than equal war forever against the unknown that claimed lives by wasting the human body in a short span of time. The fact of how quarantine was the only known technique to prevent the further loss of populations when such outbreaks happen is […]
7 February 2020 It was bound to happen. Just when people were promised honesty and humility by a chastised President, Trump came out to revel in his Senate Acquittal in a fashion that was beyond brazen. Not only did he trash Mitt Romney a very senior senator and Republican who once ran for President for […]
5 February 2020 https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/02/04/pete-buttigieg-speech-iowa-caucus-sot-vpx.cnn It is uncanny how Trump is going to hammer a message to Americans about Democrats using Iowa. How many Americans feel that the rank incompetence and chaos of the Democrat Primary in Iowa is for them a clear indication to keep Trump II as an option. Of course, we know that […]
3 February 2020 #BlueprintForNewIndia I juggled between number crunching and whether roughly the numbers back the intent or content of the Budget Speech that emerged from the Bahikatha this year. I decided that numbers would mean preparing a table, paring it down, and I am not upto a presentation of the Budget in any case. […]
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