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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The Winter of Dreary Dread!
14 December 2020 The fancy is simply revolting. It is clearly a battle not just for the Soul of America but more widely, it is one for the soul of Democracy itself. Why must we look at this overcast sky with fomenting chill winds, precipitating beads of flakes and drops that covers everything with a […]
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Harbour and Harbour
12 December 2020 American election drama was punctuated with the final results announced and a day called Safe Harbor Day, when apparently the US Congress is supposed to accept the decision of individual states electoral college votes as final or incontrovertible. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/us/politics/election-safe-harbor-deadline.html It is as with the US a Congressional law passed after a confusion […]
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Transparency of Governance
10 December 2020 It is called the Global Corruption Barometer and the report I have glanced through is a portion called Asia 2020. https://images.transparencycdn.org/images/GCB_Asia_2020_Report_Web_final.pdf In any event this survey conducted just around the time much of Asia was ‘unlocking’ from the Pandemic with skeletal functioning of government offices except for Sri Lanka and Vietnam whose […]
7 December 2020 Part II: Why are we trapped, feeling safe in status quo versus the prospect of better future through reform. Actually I can say the Farm Trilogy is a tragedy because of timing. India had missed the bus in UPA2, when she could have done this in a calibrated manner, but for guttural […]
7 December 2020 Part I- How we got here or India’s agrarian story so far It is not every day that the UN treats India like a third world country, at least not for a domestic matter, one that would fall squarely into the ‘internal affairs’ of the country. Not since this current generation of […]
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