10 February 2021 We can first make some postulates about these ethical templates so that we can examine the major faultlines that fractured our scientific community in this Pandemic.Firstly I shall use no jargon, no terminology because my intention here is not to create a set of new theories, rather it is an attempt to […]
9 February 2021 Imagine when a school scuffle turns bad and reported. Then the boy who was identified as the bully and suitably castigated finds out that the one he thought he took down, is holding fort in class, regaling his audience about the many times he was whipping the bully when no one was […]
8 February 2021 What happened in Chamoli was ‘waiting’ to happen? https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/in-pics-massive-flooding-after-glacier-breaks-in-uttarakhand-2365205 We were quite sure that the glacier burst was something similar to the previous experience in Himachal involving the Sutlej, where a glacier melt and a mudslide had created a lake that burst and a wall of water bulldozed its way downstream in […]
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Shadow Slugfest
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, […]
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The Bregman Commandments
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 […]
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The Human Soup
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 […]
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A Leading Light Amidst Stars
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 […]
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