13 January 2020 Now that Iran has accepted responsibility for downing an Ukrainian passenger jet within minutes of its take off from Teheran, the international aviation community needs to revisit the tenets of how it reacts to volatile situations and prevents incidents of the nature that occurred in Teheran and the downing of a Air […]
11 January 2020 It is now widely accepted that India’s numbers are her new plague. Now fairly most discussions in the public domain do not skirt around whether we are in ‘recession’ or our economic performance is underwhelming or that we are staring at an abyss whose depth and dangers are unfathomable to us, because […]
9 January 2020 This is a time when being a dead poet is as dangerous as being one struggling to place rhymes on a string! Eking out a literary living is proving to be something of a ‘cat on hot tin roof’ experience, with so many somersaults and paw tip straddling and balancing that still […]
7 January 2020 #Suleimani Few people with any sense of what is happening in our world would be making sense of what the Iraqi PM informed Parliament, that the convoy targeting that killed General Suleimani along with an Iraqi leader was actually coming back proposals for a new detente for Saudi Arabia. A vote followed […]
3 January 2020 #Suleimani First let us be very clear that no world war is going to start over the capital strike that killed the head of Iran’s special Intelligence and covert operations chief Major General Suleimani.(https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/baghdad-airport-strike-live-intl-hnk/h_0be255a08b898f0fd737f7d19076a060) Iran have already named his deputy as the next one to helm the operations, shows how the Islamic […]
31 December 2019 Was this Annulus Horribilis? How do you view a year that started with the death of four dozen CRPF personnel in Pulwama and ended with the death of more than two dozen citizens in UP? How do you look at the year ending Mann Ki Baat by PM Modi as he eloquently […]
Government has announced two major reshuffles in the form of restructuring of Railways and Defence Ministry. The Railways are clearly in need of reforms, they needed a hiving off into separate stand alone companies with Passenger, freight and infrastructure elements, and to have a regulatory body that would look into safety and accident investigations. The […]
24 December 2019 I start with this headline as topic not because I am trying to retort to Mr Tejaswi Surya MP for his mention in the Town Hall at Bengaluru, where this reference came in context of ‘othering’ the opponents of the CAA and NRC. I am trying to piece together a journey of […]
23 December 2019 Suddenly it appears that the plot has not been just lost, but the henchmen themselves have been left hanging out to dry! O’ not once but thrice and perhaps more, Mr Modi chose to decry the NRC. He listed the SC as the main culprit forcing his government to undertake the NRC […]
16 December 2019 This is the age of intemperance. We saw it in the public rallies where crowds cheer-led mass politicos who are in office and without, we saw it in literary festival where a veteran and a foreign subject expert clashed in sylvan surroundings, we can see in how the riot police stepped in […]
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