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The Language Question: #NEP2020

31 July 2020 The New Education Policy has many facets that would take some time for experts to come up with views. I am not here to wade into any controversy, for I would like to think, no reasonable citizen or expert adviser to the Government in a democracy would sacrifice common sense and caution […]

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Rafale Morale

30 July 2020 If this has not been true, it could never have sold as fiction. Mind you, India has received military aircraft right from its early days as a post Independent Non Aligned power from French and Soviet sources the first from the Dassault Stable indeed was called in India as ‘Toofani’ and India […]

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N/Dumbing The Statistics: #Covid19 Transformation

28 July 2020 I often feel, nations would have resisted the temptation to fudge if statistics did not become a ready sword to slay their reputations with. Similarly, corporate houses, cooperatives, societies as neighbourhoods and even families face the pressure of statistical appraisal that has become a great cause for concern for liberalism, transparency, and […]

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Minding the Privilege: A National Mandate Review for 15 August 2020

27 July 2020 The Military Calculus: Yesterday was Kargil Vijay Diwas. A day that should have been solemn with the remembrance of ‘martyrs’ as this nation’s press continues to refer to the Fallen who made the ultimate sacrifice because a job had to be done. Yesterday a major politician chose to air the series of […]

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Abandoning Earth : #Covid19 Take On #ClimateChange

26 July 2020 Three rovers one from China, one from UAE and one from USA are expected to land in Mars some time next year, of which the UAE and Chinese are already in space, and USA will launch its most complex Rover yet next week. In terms of extra terrestrial exploration, our solar system […]

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To Ally or Allay? Horns of the Posture Dilemma for India on China.

25 July 2020 US Declaration of Cold War with China:US Secretary for State Mike Pompeo https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/24/pompeo-speech-will-have-the-opposite-effect-in-china-says-former-us-diplomat.htmlspoke appropriately at the Memorial Address of President Nixon centre yesterday in which he made a very clear case of categorising Chinese regime of the CCP as ‘Evil’ and against whom the countries that are ‘Freedom’ loving must come together […]

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Muddles in Middle Kingdom

24 July 2020 Rise to Modernity of The Middle Kingdom:If one looks at China, the image is dazzling. The rise of the Middle Kingdom from its inward insulation and medieval mentality has been nothing short of miraculous. It appears that Communism with Chinese Characteristics has done the trick for a country which few believed would […]

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Global Stakeholder-Decoupled China?

22 July 2020 We all know that China has risen and mostly peacefully and while the current Covid19 Pandemic has soured the sales pitch and nearly queered it, China is far from skewered with support of many debt laden countries which may be small or even inconsequential but all of them with clear individual votes […]

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Rivers of Sorrow

22 July 2020 Right now the monsoons in India and the seasonal rains in China are pouring ‘water’ over much of their development related investment and manifesting as great disrupters of life already disrupted largely by the pandemic.One of the great marvels of human engineering has been the construction of dams and the creation of […]

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The Last Wise Man & Yoda of Pentagon- The Father of Net Assessment!

Saturday, 18 July 2020 In the midst of the flurry of exchanges between Government supporters and critics, one sensed the widest drift of narrative yesterday that called into memory the existence of this person who was for all practical purposes a Giant of a Man. When India’s MEA tweeted back at Mr Rahul Gandhi MP […]

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