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01 July 19 Predominantly saffron/ orange hues of the jerseys the Indians wore became a matter for the media to discuss. Why? Because some Congress legislator as an MLA made a reference to this as an answer to a question, his fears being whether the tricolour was being replaced in national consciousness by saffron! Actually […]

27 June 19 A purely political pickle would have ingredients that would be slow poison curing the dross to a finesse. No one quite saw the current grasp the RSS has on India’s polity even as late as 1992, even as later as 2002, and even as latest as 2014. Still, the only way to […]

25 June 19 Shakespeare wrote ‘to be or not to be, that is the question’ it was deemed to be the most wonderful usage of disambiguation, where the turn of phrase allows Hamlet to express his constant contemplation on suicide. It would be ironical to see how UK is now on the question of Brexit. […]

21 June 19 It is tempting to state that today bearing the cross of the medical profession must seem like a curse to most of them! The pressure from public levers is always on doctors, to provide affordable care, to provide doorstep care, to provide rural care, to provide in house care, to provide personal […]

20 June 19 Former Naval Chief Admiral Arun Prakash tweeted from Paris Air Show the HAL was missing, their bird- LCA was nowhere in sight even as Pakistanis were there with JF17s in both static and flying displays. The Modi regime which at the end of its first tenure singled out HAL for some unwarranted […]

19 June 19 From the extreme of disappointment and in the face of air brushing of facts and circumstances, one American wrote on the thread of @AOC who is their best bet as a freshman Congresswoman to find solutions to the muddle that now swarms America- A pox on all their houses! It is a […]

17 June 19 Today should have been a day for great celebration, instead it must be one of great consternation. We won with Pakistan at the Cricket game in the World Cup Cricket, but then, that was par for the course, we were overwhelming favourites not just on current rankings, but also on the basis […]

15 June 19 The US has a past, and now people have cottoned to it! So goes the gushing sentiment in the analysts’ world, as they wonder what the attacks on merchantmen in the Gulf of Persia is all about, especially when the Japanese PM was in Iran for mediation after being sent there by […]

14 June 19 There are many parables that describe the same moral ending. A witness imagines that he is undergoing a neutral event, and finds in the end that the event has grown disproportionately to drag him/her into its vortex! The classical story is of how Kalidasa was actually a dumbo sitting on a branch […]

13 June 19 Hate can consume us is something that our epics, our elders and our psychologists can always tell us. What we are now witnessing is how despite being a failed economy and a country in strife, as a neighbour Pakistan occupies disproportionate weight in Indian mindset, purely out of this angst and hatred […]