19 September 2020 Addressing a conference on security via video conferencing, Mr Ajit Doval made a stunning disclosure of a 500% spike in Financial Frauds due to the Pandemic and the government response of prolonged Lock Down and strict policing action on ground that happened due to Indians showing greater dependence on digital payment platforms. […]
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Death of Depth- India Aground?
18 September 2020 Few people are aware of how different the Indian scientific scene was before the centrally funded research laboratories and research institutions sprung up. Even fewer now are in terms with the how early genius and pioneering work in several fields had ended up with international recognition, yet, India did not suffer as […]
16 September 2020 We are seeing a flurry of announcements regarding the replacement of banned Chinese Apps with local/homegrown versions, like FAUG for PUBG, including conspiracists chatter by fans of the departed Sushant Singh Rajput who claim that his sponsored firm was about to release a slew of apps that would have upset the domestic […]
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Cyber PsyOps From China?
15 September 2020 The news broke out that Chinese were monitoring the social media handles and accounts of several thousand prominent Indians, Australians and Americans yesterday. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-14/chinese-data-leak-linked-to-military-names-australians/12656668 At the heart of this Hybrid war as this is being touted is a company based in Shenzhen China ( that sounds like Schengen of EU) called Zhenhua […]
13 September 2020 One of the interesting proposals of the INC Manifesto in the last Lok Sabha polls of 2019 was to have directly elected Mayorship for initially major cities and towns with populations well over 10 million and based on the experience to slowly bring it down to every municipal limit, with crucial difference […]
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The Political Will
12 September 2020 There is a lot of churn about emancipation of women, about why states in Southern India seem to fare far better than those in the Gangetic plains where they daily do ablutions with ‘Gangamiaa’! Whether it is gender ratio, or school education access, or late age for marriage in respect of the […]
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Spurred by Sparrow
11 September 2020 When you are in the class of ‘birder’ that I am, you would have been quite dismayed to see the disappearance of the sparrow, the one small bird near you which you could identify, whose dewy drop eyes and chirpy nature conjured for you a sliver of sylvan spring, of hope and […]
9 September 2020 I feel that this is a good indicator of our deeply divisive polity that the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize is viewed as a partisan affair and not a national affair. That said, since it is not a Governmental Trust, naturally the coverage of the Prize was headlines when Congress or UPA was […]
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Basic Structure of Social Matrix
7 September 2020 Yesterday a person passed away who was to through serendipity attach his name to one of the defining moments of Indian Constitutionalism, which bore his name- Keshavananda Bharati, a monk from Keralahttps://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/060920/kesavananda-bharati-petitioner-in-landmark-sc-judgement-passes-away.html, whose limited grouse about land reforms in Kerala was taken up by Nani Palkhiwala and turned into a legal effort […]
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Degenerate Criminal Justice System
7 September 2020 Most of India simply would want nothing to do with a policeman or woman. Sorry, this is not a colonial era hatred or animosity seeping in from those revolutionary decades of struggle for freedom, a era when the most identifiable symbol of the British were the men in Khakhis. We are often […]
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