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31 March 2019 There is apparently no sense of proportion? It seems our post millennial world of the last two decades is such a riot of data, meta data as we call it, that humans are unable to make sense of how these strands relate to them and how they seem poorly equipped to handle […]

30 March 2019 I would never have found a first time congresswoman and that too representing New York (14th District) coming from a background like hers to be a subject of such interest. But here I am following her speeches and reading about her Green New Deal and her questioning of modern capitalism with its […]

It is funny that Mr Sekhar Gupta should have authored that piece(https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/opinion-what-the-iaf-paf-dogfight-reveals/story-dDa4H38Xtq7LPnj6DtkZRN.html) about how India’s air capability had denuded between 1999 and 2019, in the wake of the Balakot Strikes and the response of the PAF the next day which saw our Wing Commander chute down over POK. Our Abhinandan was visible, thanks to Pakistani […]

29 March 2019 It seemed relieved that Mueller report submitted to the Attorney General Barr was not an indictment on President Trump, that in the finally tally an determination could not be arrived at about collusion between the President and the Russians. In recent memory of popular culture, after the hit number ‘Rasputin’ by BoneyM […]

26 March 2019 I will  not go into the economics of MIGS the version of UBIS( Universal Basic Income Scheme) that Mr Rahul Gandhi has finally announced yesterday, after it was worked on by economists, vetting by the CWC which includes Dr Manmohan Singh and Mr Chidambaram. Mr Jaitley has already watered it down into […]

Money Monsters: Government to Mr Modi was series of departments perpetually making do with less. So we have all manner of ministries struggling to tide over shortage of funds. Many ministries simply leaned on their PSUs to manage non-budgeted  expenditures. Just a simple look at the balance sheets of Navaratna PSUs will give away the […]

Despite being a person who loves to critically examine and perhaps even over analyse stuff, very briefly I can say what are the major thrusts where Mr Modi has kept the promise of his campaign when in government. These are as yet  Signals because like many things, they will need the consensus of most governments […]

20 March 2019 An Australian News paper ran a cartoon that showed New Zealand’s famous fern as composed of Muslims in various forms of prayer, thus in one go, creating a new syntax of mourning the loss of 50 plus lives lost in the brutal broad daylight murders of the faithful in their prayer halls […]

18 March 2019 It is not often that one sees a whole life cycle of change upfront and close, and Mr Manohar Parikkar offers this opportunity for political analysts and sociologists to examine, as he departs mortally from the scenes of his beloved Goa. What Mr Parikkar did was to transform a placid, almost alien […]

Only few, if not exclusively Tamil, scholars are comfortable with a pre Vedic culture for India, and even amongst them, some western Tamil scholars including David Shulman who wrote the masterpiece ‘Tamil A Biography’ do not accept that Tamil is older than Sanskrit, or the possibility that Sanskrit itself was a collaborative effort, taking in […]