8 August 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49261795 America had witnessed two back to back episodes of gun violence, which they term nowadays as ‘mass shootings’ and categorise them into ‘random’ or ‘hate’ crime category. So if you see the reports El Paso, Texas shooting that left 22 dead is a Hate Crime whereas the Dayton, Ohio one that […]
6 August 2019 When the elections to the State Assembly got postponed it was clear that the moves on Article 370 were on, and it became increasingly secure to speculate on it when using the smokescreen of a security situation, when Pakistan is having a hard sell with the FATF regime to ensure funding, and […]
Kashmir has changed from once a province which rejected the two nation theory as a Muslim majority area that did not want to accede to Pakistan in contrast with the Muslims of Jammu and other areas in the Princely state at the time of partition, to now a clearly homegrown insurgency that has seen ascent […]
4 August 2019 Are the bets really off? What does one make of the series of moves reported even in international media now underway in Kashmir? A government otherwise working to make Yatras more comfortable and taking initiatives to project yatra as legitimate concerns of majority of its citizens, closing National Highways and actually hiring […]
2 August 2019 In a day extraordinaire the Apex Court of India took notice on its own ( Suo Moto) of the petitions by Unnao Rape victim to intervene and provide justice, after the latest outrage against the victim where she is now struggling for life in an ICU, after a road accident. The powerful […]
https://www.livemint.com/politics/news/business-failures-should-not-be-a-taboo-sitharaman-on-v-g-siddhartha-s-death-1564668732065.html 2 August 2019 It is ironic that one needs to borrow this word to express a notion of ‘Aram’ or even Dharma. ‘Karpu’ is a pristine meaning quite incapable of being divvied, but my morning tryst with keys is to decode this somehow for the reader. Why must one muse over the word that […]
1 August 2019 Who did not grow up having fond memories of Cafe Cofee Day? Why could not VG Siddhartha the founder promoter and boss of CCD go the Ramalinga Raju way, of confessing and allowing the law to take it’s course?What excesses or oversights or acts of wanton cleverness make him contrite and deem […]
24 July 2019 I would not have skipped the headlines of Trump’s offer of mediation itself, as I did, but for the fact that these days. even Shashi Tharoor could be caught on the wrong footing. His ready comment of how India had a stated position, that India’s foreign policy tenets would never have offered […]
23 July 2019 What ever else it may signal, the unmistakable message here was the waning of Western Power in a rather precipitous manner! First we don’t quite know what the British were thinking when the Royal Navy intercepted an Iranian tanker headed out of the Mediterranean in the Gibraltar, accusing it of supplying oil […]
21 July 2019 Arguably she was everyone’s aunty, the late Sheila Dikshit, formidable political heavyweight who managed to rule Delhi for three terms across two different political alignments and hostile judicial environment and came to her own legacy, that one of the best tributes for her was by Mr Sudheendra Kulkarni, who lamented that unlike […]
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