12 December 2019 It is actually an acerbic way to characterise any person who has changed his/her opinion after events, for one expects a rational person to become wiser after exposure to events, critically appraising them. What on the national level was evident, that only Mr Rahul Gandhi was voicing his concerns, sometimes crudely, sometimes […]
10 December 2019 #CAB #MuslimExclusionBill The NDA has been the creator of much of confusions in the Act with Amendments of 2003 and 2015 and now this proposed Amendment. Largely Indian citizenship is ‘based on bloodlines’ unlike other countries which are based on ‘residency and place of birth’, and for a country where documentation is […]
#CAB The debate is raging over a Citizenship Amendment Bill that was introduced into the Lok Sabha by 293 votes, which means that it carried the numbers going forward for it to be passed in normal voting. Is this being brought as a Constitutional Amendment Bill? Is this targeting the minority communities, or is this […]
6 December 2019 Humour is the best form of offence and defence, there is nothing like a self deprecatory remark or an admission of ignorance to deflate a heated argument or tight situation of verbal duels! Parliamentary exchanges are recorded as some of the best sources of humour, where a healthy repartee and a pun […]
5 December 2019 #CAB #NewIndia ‘We or Our Nationhood Defined’ is the title of a book written by RSS founder Golwalkar and it has a very simple construct that every state adheres to a religious affiliation and for this Indian subcontinental mass that is South Asia the predominance of Hinduism cannot be denied. So as […]
3 December 2019 #NewIndia #HamaraBajaj We all quite know that there is hardly any dignity left in public life. Still there are those moments when one takes a way of what is happening in India, from cues emerging from the ranks of those who are invested in public life. First off is Ms Mahua Moitra […]
29 November 2019 #NRCNationwide Is the national NRC simply going to reopen the question for Inspector Salim of blockbuster Sarfarosh, the wound of being told that this land is not his home? https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/it-is-difficult-to-imagine-a-sarfarosh-2-in-2019/cid/1688696 https://youtu.be/ob4XKar6Brk I would not have waded into this ongoing ‘hip hop’ acrobatic and trying to land on feet and finding one’s head […]
27 November 2019 #MahaNatak #MaharashtraGovernmentFormation If you ask folks on ground, they feel that this is Karnataka all over again in Maharashtra. They feel like Mr Yedurappa Mr Fadnavis was sworn in and resigned before facing the SC ordered Floor Test. They feel that like Karnataka this alliance of clear Anti BJP ism, for there […]
23 November 2019 No, it was not a surprise, in fact a Maharashtra observer and good friend had offered this heads up months ago, immediately after the results of the Lok Sabha elections were announced, that for the state assembly there would be an alliance between SS-NCP-INC. It seemed heretical to me, it was of […]
22 November 2019 #PolityParadigm The temptation to switch off from social media, to not pen any thing for a week was a mix of virtue and necessity. In times like this, when one has a purposive and poised power mongering as a seasonal flavour, a switch off like this could lead you to becoming a […]
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