2 September 2020 The fresh bout of clashes that took place on the intervening night of 29-30 August 2020 over the northern banks of Pongang Tso lake for which clear details are as yet sketchy, with many sources claiming that SFF Vikas commandoes repulsed the PLA in their attempt to dislodge them from two elevated […]
1 September 2020 On August 2, 2020, The Hindu ran a headline “ICMR fast-tracks approvals for Israeli research coordinated by DRDO”. https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/icmr-fast-tracks-approvals-for-israeli-research-coordinated-by-drdo/article32248603.eceFirstly no one quite understood why the DRDO was roped in for trials about some saliva based tests or therapeutic data concerning the ongoing Pandemic in India by Israeli scientists, when there is already […]
31 August 2020 [This article was written on 15 September 2018 and shelved because the book didn’t come out. So it is getting hosted because the book is now out.] Forgive me if you are an author Amish fan, for I am going to spoil your appetite for his forthcoming novel. I live in a […]
29 August 2020 Since the less than impressive snapshot of the world’s most powerful democracy made no bones about ‘tribalism’ which is supposedly the primitive instinct that drove homo sapiens to dominance on the planet when there were several species of homos, hominids and neanderthals, that White Humans or rather non Black Humans have been […]
28 August 2020 It is as if USA decided to treat itself to a preview premiere of sorts, with one series of events where first a black man ( yet again and in the midst of all this #BlackLivesMatter) was shot in the back when he was reaching out for something in his car, luckily […]
27 August 2020 There is considerable energy expended on social media, by users or account holders, as invested people, in trying to bring about expansions to ‘horizons’. In a Pandemic this would have been exactly what the Public Health Specialist would have ordered, a highly contextualised, personalised message delivered at the door of individual awareness […]
[How India’s domestic calculus must rise to the challenge of offering a solidity and institutional integrity in response to external Chinese aggression.] 24 August 2020 So we have the CDS mention that all options are on the table, including the military option as a last resort if ‘talks do not yield any results’! https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-has-military-options-to-deal-with-chinese-transgressions-if-talks-fail-cds-rawat/articleshow/77713462.cms?fbclid=IwAR3QIgRYO4Ym4FnbOGdIzhA4LnrylKOa0lt-h_wFOLXNTWj5oLrvgEJBvb4Actually I […]
24 August 2020 I am not proposing that Science and Evidence based standardised approach to any field must be allowed less exacting standards. Yet in times such as ours faced with a Post Truth World, it is important that we must push back and seen to be more aggressive in countering the False. I am […]
22 August 2020 “Ano Corona is more haunting than most, and we are drawing toward the last quarter with August gone mostly. In living memory of most people, this would have been literally the most damp and dampening circumstances in which the Bappa came home. Through common sense and government fiat, his size is much […]
20 August 2020 When humanity will look back, it will see how much of the current woes it is in the throes of was self inflicted. We will vince and convince ourselves that we have committed ourselves firmly, that this will never be repeated, that we will ensure that such a surrender of common sense […]
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