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14 April 2019 My first thoughts at how Assange will go down in history was crystal- That he is not favourite of our times, associated more with disruption and notoriety than with the actual tectonic shift his contributions were to transparency. Julian is on the Wrong side of Time but on the Right side of […]

13 April 2019-One Hundred Years of Jallianwala Bagh. There is no such thing as poetic justice, one would aver, for the Prime Minister of the country that carried out the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh even in its centennial year of commemoration could not go beyond an expression of regret. An apology too, would surely not […]

11 April 2019 For an Indian it is not understandable, or easily relatable, how the fission over the fate of foetuses is now raising its head after we have read about Roe v Wade, in which the US Supreme Court gave women the right to abort. We thought that the law was settled, little realising […]

8 April 2019 If there is any central theme of this elections, it is the least bit about the much bandied ‘civilisational clash’, as if this were a wrestling bout for the moral high ground, apparently a campaign for the ‘conscience of India’, a struggle for her soul! Pray, do not be persuaded by such […]

8 April 2019 We are living in such times that now ‘political correctness’ made our humour tepid and our gossip colourless. The usual ‘sardarji’ or ‘thambi’ jokes proved to be not in sync with the mass sense of proportion and balance and the only territory that seemed available was the gender based jokes where we […]

The WHO has set an ambitious target for it, repeated this goal as its World Health Day slogan for the second year in a row, and emphasised that within the decade, i.e. by 2030 we need to get there. The goal is ambitious because unlike previous emphasis on preventive care and targeted goals for diseases, […]

We as a people are often unable to hold back and speak up or out, and that is when the inner demons get revealed. I felt in a strange coincidence, three different persons were being attacked for basically the same reasons. The views they expressed were not in sync with the majority sentiment, and of […]

Fresh from watching a movie like LKG, which is a Tamil movie about as current on political milieu as Google, I can say that we are walking up to smell our filter coffees! It is really curious to see how a sometimes cliched and sometimes inspiring script can get your goat, with the central theme […]

2 April 2019 Do we really need a debate over capabilities which we hope we will never actually deploy? Strategic affairs discourse in India has been repeatedly derailed because of a stance that we have, based on our ‘Hindu’ identity of being a peace loving people, incapable of animosity or military bearing in a world […]

1 April 2019 Somewhere along the path to development, between when India was a struggling third world country and when she became an economy in PPP terms and in real terms to be reckoned as within the G20, India’s mindset and her approach to health care changed.  It is surprising that this mindset change was […]