19 February 2021 Did any one thing that having a common border with Mexico or being the self styled ‘Lone Star’ state would leave Texas in a sense of splendid isolation, bring it grief on a ‘rainy’ day? Actually what should have been a normal winter of snows, a spell of white weather, has turned […]
17 February 2021 A scam of novelty appears to have burst in the RW firmament. First was a conventional expose of RW Troll army led by an aspiring star Mr Kapil Mishra, against whom a conscience keeper Mr Harsh Mander has gone to the Delhi HC to get the police to register an FIR for […]
15 February 2021 I will just stick my neck out to say that there is enough evidence in lore and historical plates, to prove that while British Isles offer glimpses of this in their history with wars between England, Scotland, Wales, Irish, before the United Kingdom came about, Tamil history never ended with such finality. […]
13 February 2021 It was surprising to see how many veterans as military experts took a view different from that of Lt Gen Panag who appeared to be along with Col Ajay Shukla one of the staunchest critics of the handling of Ladakh situation so far. Of course, it is said often, that the person […]
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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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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