11 September 2020 When you are in the class of ‘birder’ that I am, you would have been quite dismayed to see the disappearance of the sparrow, the one small bird near you which you could identify, whose dewy drop eyes and chirpy nature conjured for you a sliver of sylvan spring, of hope and […]
9 September 2020 I feel that this is a good indicator of our deeply divisive polity that the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize is viewed as a partisan affair and not a national affair. That said, since it is not a Governmental Trust, naturally the coverage of the Prize was headlines when Congress or UPA was […]
7 September 2020 Yesterday a person passed away who was to through serendipity attach his name to one of the defining moments of Indian Constitutionalism, which bore his name- Keshavananda Bharati, a monk from Keralahttps://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/060920/kesavananda-bharati-petitioner-in-landmark-sc-judgement-passes-away.html, whose limited grouse about land reforms in Kerala was taken up by Nani Palkhiwala and turned into a legal effort […]
7 September 2020 Most of India simply would want nothing to do with a policeman or woman. Sorry, this is not a colonial era hatred or animosity seeping in from those revolutionary decades of struggle for freedom, a era when the most identifiable symbol of the British were the men in Khakhis. We are often […]
5 September 2020 Today is Teachers Day in India in memory and honour of Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan a philosopher and statesman who gave an impetus to the reading of Upanishads which in his opinion were part of the body of work in Sanskrit that offered the most enduring and secular insights to the earliest formulations […]
4 September 2020 (This balkanised version of China is of 1970s vintage from a Free Tibet movement inspired website. It does not cater for Manchuria for obvious reasons) { This is a pure work of fiction. Resemblance to actual actors/players or countries is intended but not implied.} The situation was now clearing up, the Mandate […]
2 September 2020 The fresh bout of clashes that took place on the intervening night of 29-30 August 2020 over the northern banks of Pongang Tso lake for which clear details are as yet sketchy, with many sources claiming that SFF Vikas commandoes repulsed the PLA in their attempt to dislodge them from two elevated […]
1 September 2020 On August 2, 2020, The Hindu ran a headline “ICMR fast-tracks approvals for Israeli research coordinated by DRDO”. https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/icmr-fast-tracks-approvals-for-israeli-research-coordinated-by-drdo/article32248603.eceFirstly no one quite understood why the DRDO was roped in for trials about some saliva based tests or therapeutic data concerning the ongoing Pandemic in India by Israeli scientists, when there is already […]
31 August 2020 [This article was written on 15 September 2018 and shelved because the book didn’t come out. So it is getting hosted because the book is now out.] Forgive me if you are an author Amish fan, for I am going to spoil your appetite for his forthcoming novel. I live in a […]
29 August 2020 Since the less than impressive snapshot of the world’s most powerful democracy made no bones about ‘tribalism’ which is supposedly the primitive instinct that drove homo sapiens to dominance on the planet when there were several species of homos, hominids and neanderthals, that White Humans or rather non Black Humans have been […]
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