3 February 2020 The Budget was changed by Mr Jaitley, when he changed the date, when the Railway Budget was subsumed into the National Budget.The major changes were not these, the major changes were how normal bills got converted into money bills, like the one that brought in Electoral Bonds for Political party financing, or […]
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The Date of New Boundaries
1 February 2020 #WoodAreLovelyDarkAndDeep #RobertFrost ‘I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep’…There are not many more such evocative phrases that readers have recalled in their memories and lives, as the one I began with. It is recorded that Nehru had recalled these very words in his Diary or Book of […]
Memory of Man and Mahatma
30 January 2020 Today is the day when in 1948, Mr Godse managed to kill the Mahatma finally. On this day years ago, that light was snuffed out, which had threatened to at one time consume us with its compassion and its moral authority until it reached a ripe age of 125! India had and […]
Beating Retreat
29 January 2020 Today the news paper is full of mixed feelings for a diehard optimist. It seems that the cup of disappointment runneth over for now. Whatever caused our world to descend into dystopia so swiftly? Where is that gung-ho festive mood of electoral games that once characterised our chaotic but colourful election seasons? […]
27 January 2020 There was a time when Padma Awards had become a bone of political contention, seen to be an anathema to the ethos of a Republic and the advancement of a equal citizenship sans titles. In fact, the awards were abolished in the immediate aftermath of the Emergency, when many of the leading […]
Adam’s Fundamentals
25 January 2020 #TrumpImpeachmentTrial Half a world away, in USA the most significant claw back of our times is under way. Truth is now attempting to ear worm its way back to the Consciousness of America, a weak yet willing attempt, through the Democrats campaign to Impeach President Trump. Why is this so significant when […]
The Tatters and Matters
21 January 2020 #NeoCapitalism # DarkWeb At this moment, the events that are uppermost are the least of our concerns. We have Delhi Police officially Tweeting to the general public to vacate Shaheen Bagh as a protest arena as it is causing traffic hassles to general public and to school children, we have a petition […]
20 January 2020 There are strands that reveal that the Government is flustered. Hence it is trying out various flanks, like using Niti Ayog Vice Chair to accuse Kashmiris of using the internet for porn, even as Kashmiris complain that the new sanitised list of internet sites that they can access does not allow even […]
Rajatarangini
17 January 2020 #Kashmir #Article370 I am no Kalhana though I feel that the archives that are the history of Kashmir must be continued from where he left off…for the Vitasta continues to flow, the Neelum and Jhelum do, his land that once enthroned the great seeker Lalithaditya is now riven with divisions and just […]
The Army Under CDS
15 January 2020 We can say that the presser held on the eve of the Army Day today by the new Chief General Naravane was a clear attempt to sort of reboot the narrative of the Army. What the solid soldiering General stressed was allegiance to the Constitution of India, going as far as to […]