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17 July 2019 We are witness to the fracas over the import of MLAs and their fungible loyalty, over the last five years. Even more acutely we also see how the biggest exporter of political talent from the various political parties is the Congress Party to the BJP, in a manner that back of hand […]

13 July 2019 The only way one can look at Supreme Court proceedings in context of our politics is how and why repeated the matters are heard without imposing prohibitive costs on those parties, mostly the Union Government that wastes the time of the Courts, just because it is politically expedient. If one looks at […]

12 July 2019 Since Ms Sitaraman chose not to read out the numbers, one had deferred judgement on the content and intent of the budget proposals. Of course, government led think tanks and their acolytes have made Ms Sitaraman’s proposals a heady success, many calling her as conforming to the larger grandness of Mr Modi’s […]

11 July 2019 Only fools would think that platitudes mouthed or empty denials issued on the floor of Parliament would actually amount to some assurance or other. If any thing, this government is known for its skullduggery, the BJP under Mr Amit Shah is known for simply not conceding any quarter to any adversary or […]

9 July 2019 Remember the big controversy that derailed the run of Hillary Clinton for Presidency? The label that Mr Trump gave her of ‘crooked Hillary’? Remember those promises to get to the bottom of it all? Well the use of private email servers was at the ‘bottom’ of the controversy surrounding the conduct of […]

9 July 2019 The tax revenue is being shored by hiking the personal income tax slab of the High Net Income Individuals who are in the bracket between ₹ 2-5 crore per annum and those earning greater than ₹ 5 crore by increasing the surcharge on their IT rather than by creating a new tax […]

06 July 19 This is not the final verdict on the budget, but I could not follow it to the exacting manner that a clear view of its intents and purposes has been established other than the semantics of dispensing with the ‘briefcase’ and calling it ‘ledger of accounts’-Bahi Katha! People forget the last time […]

05 July 19 Easter Sunday bombings have led to increase in isolation of Muslim communities in Sri Lanka as per some reports, there were definitely clashes between Buddhists and Muslims and Muslims and Christians which were isolated and was somehow contained and not allowed to become another national emergency for the island nation. (https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/06/06/sri-lanka-responds-to-islamist-terrorism-by-terrorising-muslims) While […]

04 July 19 The dramatic manner in which President Trump assured Americans that his administration will work around the Supreme Court order that kept citizenship question from the Census Questionnaire, was in absolute contrast to how quietly an official of the Justice Department and an official in charge of the Census informed Americans that the […]

02 July 19 While Indian liberals mull over what they describe as a ‘state of undeclared emergency’ where admittedly they had a faustian bargain with the UPA and feel abandoned in the NDA, they can take a leaf out of Hong Kong as a civil resistance that shows what ordinary people are capable of, if […]