15 October 2019 The Nobel equivalent prize for Economics was announced last evening, it had an Indian origin American professor of MIT, A Banerjee as one of the winners. The three of them Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kramer won the Nobel for innovative use of Randomised Control Trials, for methods to prove economic […]
14 October 2019 #MahabalipuramIndoChinaSummitry When was the last time a Chinese President toasted India to a 100 year relationship? Even in the heady Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai days we have not seen a declaration by any Chinese leader, leave alone one who is more powerful than even Chairman Mao in the manner in which constitutionally President Xi […]
12 October 2019 For a person who insists that we must use the past merely as guidance and inspiration and not at all as rhetoric or evidence of our supposed entitlement in the present, I was full of reminiscences of my own visits to the temples and caves of what we called ‘Mahabs’! In my […]
The world has moved on and like silly nostalgic folk who refuse to see the altering landscape or the proverbial writing on the wall, we are unable to quite understand what is happening to us and our precious political ecosystem, one in which we carried out our silly notions of moral power, through fasts and […]
3 October 2019 It is only in the last few decades actually, that human values have been enshrined in legal cannon, values that we today individually would like to take for granted. Values that now allow us to declare insolvency and not be subjected to bondage to redeem debts for starters! Values that allow us […]
2 October 2019 The political movements of uniqueness that the Mahatma breathed life into have long gone. They were hewn from his personal religiosity of a spartan leadership and mass conversion to a publicly avowed position upholding the most syncretic and visionary ideals of the land. Indeed it is fitting that a politician who has […]
30 September 2019 It is now more than 50 days, but more importantly we are about to enter the winter season of the Himalayan region. The Summer stretching from May to September is over, and there is a small window left before the snows blanket the region. A tactician would have two key areas to […]
29 September 2019 What has been a travesty of our Post Truth world is that a run on Institutions is not just happening in a democracy like ours, where the voter is disenfranchised not because the vote is not there, but because that vote has narrow considerations, affixed to linkage through castes, anchored in identity- […]
27 September 2019 #SC decision-inaction,&implication In a predictable and satisfying way, Mr Boris Johnson found himself in a spot and a bind, after the SC of UK announced 11-0, that abrogation of Parliament was unlawful. The first and foremost reason offered by Lady Hale as she presided over the Court was the litmus of reasonable […]
26 September 2019 The euphoria of triumphalism has become so heady that it has reached its peak, so think many. The impenetrable mood of celebration over the Houston event where so many Congressmen and the POTUS joined the stage with Mr Modi making it a celebration of Indian Americans, where they were toasting their arrival […]
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