25 September 2020 I am not going to lay down all those places where President Trump has misled American voters and citizens about the Corona Virus. Nor is this the place to serialise and recapitulate these positions that Republican senators and other RW voices in media and elsewhere have made, which today contributes to the […]
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22 September 2020 There is a old saying about revealing your cards. It is why we have the term- poker face. So in what way is this move of China to talk on one hand about ‘Fortified Tibet’ as if it were defending and to also show clips where a merchant ship capable of carrying […]
22 September 2020 We needed to go back to 2016, when Senator Mitch McConnell led the Republicans to a partisan block of the SCOTUS nomination by President Obama for a good 14 months when the last SCOTUS vacancy came from the death of a sitting judge- Justice Scalia. That time was good as any for […]
20 September 2020 Those who are now agitating, even the SAD which resigned from ministerial presence in the NDA government, are doing too little too late. Even the INCs agitational politics is being distorted by clever scheme where a former Spokesperson like Sanjay Jha is trying to portray the Farm bills as a form of […]
19 September 2020 Addressing a conference on security via video conferencing, Mr Ajit Doval made a stunning disclosure of a 500% spike in Financial Frauds due to the Pandemic and the government response of prolonged Lock Down and strict policing action on ground that happened due to Indians showing greater dependence on digital payment platforms. […]
Death of Depth- India Aground?
18 September 2020 Few people are aware of how different the Indian scientific scene was before the centrally funded research laboratories and research institutions sprung up. Even fewer now are in terms with the how early genius and pioneering work in several fields had ended up with international recognition, yet, India did not suffer as […]
16 September 2020 We are seeing a flurry of announcements regarding the replacement of banned Chinese Apps with local/homegrown versions, like FAUG for PUBG, including conspiracists chatter by fans of the departed Sushant Singh Rajput who claim that his sponsored firm was about to release a slew of apps that would have upset the domestic […]
Cyber PsyOps From China?
15 September 2020 The news broke out that Chinese were monitoring the social media handles and accounts of several thousand prominent Indians, Australians and Americans yesterday. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-14/chinese-data-leak-linked-to-military-names-australians/12656668 At the heart of this Hybrid war as this is being touted is a company based in Shenzhen China ( that sounds like Schengen of EU) called Zhenhua […]
13 September 2020 One of the interesting proposals of the INC Manifesto in the last Lok Sabha polls of 2019 was to have directly elected Mayorship for initially major cities and towns with populations well over 10 million and based on the experience to slowly bring it down to every municipal limit, with crucial difference […]
The Political Will
12 September 2020 There is a lot of churn about emancipation of women, about why states in Southern India seem to fare far better than those in the Gangetic plains where they daily do ablutions with ‘Gangamiaa’! Whether it is gender ratio, or school education access, or late age for marriage in respect of the […]