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When Cambridge Analytica story broke out, we had Mark Zuckerberg called to account which was funny for how could people blame Facebook for voting Brexit or Trump? Actually a Margaret Mead quote needs revisiting:“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” […]

Beyond the narrative of neo-nationalism, foreign observers shared their view that this event would be woven into the national electoral narrative,  to be used by Mr Modi for ratcheting jingoism and warmongering, and by the opposition to show the government in poor light. But even before that can play out, I feel our hand was […]

It is important to see the event for what it was- an audacious attack, frontal involving a relatively lesser used tactic of a car bomb, driven by a terrorist, in a suicide attack on a convoy of troops. Before we view how as a nation we took this news, consider that military and paramilitary convoys […]

The sitter of a catch is dropped by the most agile of fielders, is stating the obvious in cricketing analogy of how even the best possible outcome is not always surety. What caused a situation where if one takes away the optics or the high adrenalin cries of neglect, a financial tangle for the Government, […]

The perils of a Democracy where there is no choice is signalled by the desperation in toying with the idea of an irreproachable figure by Thakshin Shinawatra and Yingluck in their now aborted attempt to anoint the King’s sister as their candidate for Prime Minister. There is no greater red letter warning than the desire […]

Soon after the Manmohan Singh Government quit office, there were a series of articles and social media posts, what was actually well known to those who roamed India’s streets and farms- that India had experienced once of its best growth phases since Independence. But one of the greatest disservices done by Dr Manmohan Singh as […]

One of the failure of successive governments is to reform the military industrial complex that has left India as a servile importer of weaponry and substandard producer of munitions and systems. While the new DPP 2016 allows for more private participation, there is a need to understand how if India had not amended its telecom […]

The controversy apparently is now self sustaining, for a series of news paper articles have emerged from The Hindu as a mainstream newspaper, besides articles by The Wire and other web based media. Col Ajai Shukla (Retd)  was along with Mr Rahul Gandhi, the lone rangers of Rafale Deal, and many imputed that he was […]

I was surprised to see how media was reacting to the use of NSA on some cow heisting folk in MP, and how they were skinning the calf Mr Rahul Gandhi along with the bull Mr Kamal Nath, accusing them of betraying the mandate and ideology of their political moorings. These folk could not be […]

Just imagine if CM West Bengal has been provoked with a CBI raid on her DGP by UPA government who would have sprung to her defence first? CM Gujarat, Mr Modi. This happened in 2013, and in one famous speech thereafter, Mr Modi called the CBI -Congress Bureau of Investigation! So for all those political […]