4 February 2021 Did Carribean origin pop icon Rihanna achieve what she set out when she tweeted why we were not discussing the farmers agitation in India? It was stupendous to see that the social media platform was agog with tweets trending, her individual tweet alone was retweeted a quarter million times in first 24 […]
3 February 2021 One of the better moves of the Modi Government has been to do away with the Railway Budget, an anachronism from The Raj, when railway was strategic infrastructure and commanded a central role and autonomy that Independent India did not offer. While there was always a case for India to have a […]
1 February 2021 The flurry of administrative orders or executive orders that emanated from the White House have more or less reversed the direction of the American State within a fortnight. It demonstrated not how powerful a Presidency is in America after all, but to the larger world, it demonstrated a commitment upholding Biden Presidency, […]
29 January 2021 The funniest thing is how the ideas that one author has offered are in many ways so self reaffirming for many who have been thinking all along on those very lines. I had a friend and mentor whose understanding of interpersonal relationships, I had even dubbed as ‘Pach Principles’ which was a […]
28 January 2021 Public memory is fickle say political commentators, however history is full of public memory being elephantine, quite willing to bide their time, as we saw during the French Revolution, in the Bolshevik overthrow of Tsar of Russia, and closer to home, in Chaurichura chowky in Gorakhpur UP when a procession chanting Non […]
26 January 2021 We first saw a brief glimpse of Jack Ma, that was on 20 January 2021, as if to offer an olive branch of sorts to the incoming Biden Administration. Yet, Xi’s China is not a suitor, trying to woo the US, which could well be Deng’s China back then in the 70s […]
24 January 2021 What can be really said about ‘genetics’ a kind of reaffirmation of the weird logic that runs through Indic scriptural corruption that manifested as caste system, and Western Eugenics, when you face a family that counts 2 Nobel Laureates and half a dozen stellar role models in varied fields, ranging from literary […]
24 January 2021 Finally we can begin to gaze away from the most important Western Democratic system and nation state, the USA and focus elsewhere. For actually on 20 January 2021, there were no surprises in the script. Of course we saw American raw power of her popular culture on display all day, starting with […]
19 January 2021 Oh some things have really aged well. We could have taken this in terms of unraveling or in terms of implosion, but the disclosures about the true or presumably inner thoughts that did not quite get blared in as many words of Mr Arnab Goswami in his WhatsApp conversations with the boss […]
16 January 2021 It was curious to read that President Xi was asking the boss of Starbucks to play good samaritan and renew high level contacts with incoming Biden administration to ‘ease the US China economic relations’! This tall request from Xi comes at a time when Biden may not exactly reset the button for […]
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