29 December 2020 So will we ever see a Stacey Abrams? Will we hear an Indian version of Mayor Pete? Two key voices that mobilised American voters in this election of 3 November 2020 that saw the highest turnout in recorded American election history, at the height of this pandemic! We know Trump almost toppled […]
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2021 India’s Destination
28 December 2020 There is nothing like destiny said an elder. We have chosen this arc of our times in ways we have yet to understand, but for which we have sufficient pointers. I am sure that if we looked at 2020, we started as a country may be a bit nervous, but no one […]
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Flashville @ Nashville
26 December 2020 I have waited for some time to see if any details will emerge that could be confirming my initial analysis of what went down in the main streets of Nashville, in front of its tallest building belonging to AT& T on Christmas morning in the State of Tennessee.My initial thoughts were simple […]
24 December 2020 While commentators in US were shocked and surprised at Trump’s actions as president in the last 24 hours, his throwing a spanner of veto on two pieces of legislation that are much needed and for which lot of bipartisan effort including support from his Government officials went in, and his flurry of […]
23 December 2020 If four years ago I had seen a US military member mention the word- ‘take over’ I would have simply baulked at it and dismissed it as nonsense. If any country was coup-proof after India, it was the USA! Yet watching General Michael Flynn actually mouth words to that effect https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/19/politics/trump-oval-office-meeting-special-counsel-martial-law/index.html, with […]
22 December 2020 Suddenly we seem to be back to that ground zero, which we have yet to scientifically confirm thanks to Chinese obstructionism, WHO timidity and a general sense of a Pandemic dread which has thrown off intrepid adventurers on the trail of the novel coronavirus that has been plaguing the world since the […]
20 December 2020 Before we take things to mean more than what they are, Mr Rahul Gandhi’s walking out of a Parliamentary Committee hearing on Defence is being interpreted by too many people and with such bias that I cannot understand.Look at farmers being blamed as misled by Pakistan and China! It is as if […]
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The God of All Things
18 December 2020 There is a Tamil saying that marriage is a harvest of 1000 years. No, by no stretch is this a foray in marital counselling, nor a peek into how India’s marital customs came into vogue! There are times when you must face what is the elephant in the room- the lack of […]
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The cosy versus the quota!
17 December 2020 Science has confirmed for us what humans knew in their finest moments all along, that give or take chance, all humans are born equal. In essence, whatever distorts this basic creed of humanity must be squarely addressed, and unfortunately we have a system where so many Aryabhatas, Brahmaguptas, Matangs and more are […]
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Indian Liberation!
16 December 2020 For simply the significance of this day, the acclaim of which is simply unfair to reduce to polemics or strategic concerns, 16 December as Vijay Diwas or Victory Day was the greatest day when India’s military accomplished for her, the victory of a national idea that was notionally and rationally superior to […]
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