28 August 2020 It is as if USA decided to treat itself to a preview premiere of sorts, with one series of events where first a black man ( yet again and in the midst of all this #BlackLivesMatter) was shot in the back when he was reaching out for something in his car, luckily […]
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27 August 2020 There is considerable energy expended on social media, by users or account holders, as invested people, in trying to bring about expansions to ‘horizons’. In a Pandemic this would have been exactly what the Public Health Specialist would have ordered, a highly contextualised, personalised message delivered at the door of individual awareness […]
[How India’s domestic calculus must rise to the challenge of offering a solidity and institutional integrity in response to external Chinese aggression.] 24 August 2020 So we have the CDS mention that all options are on the table, including the military option as a last resort if ‘talks do not yield any results’! https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-has-military-options-to-deal-with-chinese-transgressions-if-talks-fail-cds-rawat/articleshow/77713462.cms?fbclid=IwAR3QIgRYO4Ym4FnbOGdIzhA4LnrylKOa0lt-h_wFOLXNTWj5oLrvgEJBvb4Actually I […]
Battle Ground #NewIndia
24 August 2020 I am not proposing that Science and Evidence based standardised approach to any field must be allowed less exacting standards. Yet in times such as ours faced with a Post Truth World, it is important that we must push back and seen to be more aggressive in countering the False. I am […]
Masked Festivities
22 August 2020 “Ano Corona is more haunting than most, and we are drawing toward the last quarter with August gone mostly. In living memory of most people, this would have been literally the most damp and dampening circumstances in which the Bappa came home. Through common sense and government fiat, his size is much […]
Covid19-Salience in Song
20 August 2020 When humanity will look back, it will see how much of the current woes it is in the throes of was self inflicted. We will vince and convince ourselves that we have committed ourselves firmly, that this will never be repeated, that we will ensure that such a surrender of common sense […]
18 August 2020 I notice how for some time now, we have this conspiracy push about figures from our past, who were perceived to have not received the same level of attention as others have received in what was then colonial India, further back as medieval India and from time to time, particularly on the […]
The Deafening Diabolical Drama
18 August 2020 The novelty wore off, very soon, when one realised that there was hardly any information, context, or character to these platforms, which were called variously by various News Channels and were used to absorb the entire lack of good old journalism, by substituting it with a kind of soap opera which Balaji […]
Facing Facebooked Reality
17 August 2020 It took Wall Street Journal to create a ripple https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-hate-speech-india-politics-muslim-hindu-modi-zuckerberg-11597423346across many oceans and rock the cozy set between India’s ruling RW ecosystem and the world’s largest incorporated country- Facebook, whose global denizens are captive to her walls and views, shown in studies aftermath to have aided in electoral outcomes such as American […]
16 August 2020 I do not see any other major modern state with a polity hankering for connectivity, like I have seen Indians do. Reasons could be many, because it would appear that Indian migration to other parts of the world is not a recent affair, but India’s cultural dominance by ‘Dilli’ is something which […]