18 August 2020 I notice how for some time now, we have this conspiracy push about figures from our past, who were perceived to have not received the same level of attention as others have received in what was then colonial India, further back as medieval India and from time to time, particularly on the […]
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The Deafening Diabolical Drama
18 August 2020 The novelty wore off, very soon, when one realised that there was hardly any information, context, or character to these platforms, which were called variously by various News Channels and were used to absorb the entire lack of good old journalism, by substituting it with a kind of soap opera which Balaji […]
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Facing Facebooked Reality
17 August 2020 It took Wall Street Journal to create a ripple https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-hate-speech-india-politics-muslim-hindu-modi-zuckerberg-11597423346across many oceans and rock the cozy set between India’s ruling RW ecosystem and the world’s largest incorporated country- Facebook, whose global denizens are captive to her walls and views, shown in studies aftermath to have aided in electoral outcomes such as American […]
16 August 2020 I do not see any other major modern state with a polity hankering for connectivity, like I have seen Indians do. Reasons could be many, because it would appear that Indian migration to other parts of the world is not a recent affair, but India’s cultural dominance by ‘Dilli’ is something which […]
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World Scenario-Games
15 August 2020 When those boomerang shaped birds took off from Whiteman Airforce Base Missouri, to land at Diego Gracia, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/us-sends-stealth-bombers-to-counter-chinese-threat-fc33g6jnfand the venerable B52 bombers took off from Diego Garcia to land at Guam, when the US Marine Corps deployed her landing ships modified as Lightning Carriers and stationed them off Philippines coast, you can […]
14 August 2020I can say, I have to suspend belief in most things I treasure, as founding rocks of human decency, to rationalise how late Sushant Singh Rajput would be hounded, pounded and turned into a political stratagem in the near two months of his shocking passing. The underswell of grief as losing a promising […]
13 August 2020 In this world of evidence based science, nothing can persuade a person more than numbers. Statistics of numbers is an arbiter like none, one which has become now a clear casualty, borrowing from the theme of number manipulation in high finance to now high science. A clear and visible casualty of the […]
12 August 2020 When President Putin’s daughter received the first dose of the Russian Corona virus Vaccine named Sputnik V, the message was most powerful, in characteristic Putin leadership style. It is rumoured that President Putin himself suffered the virus like Prime Minister Boris Johnson and recovered from it, else he would have taken this […]
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The Chinese Gambit
11 August 2020 Many months back, when the world was still discovering Covid19, I wrote a piece in which I envisioned the Chinese trying to make a case for their acceptance at the Apex of the Global Order. I had commended the restraint with which China had handled the Hong Kong agitation the previous year( […]
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Collapse All Over
10 August 2020 I was not surprised to see NDTV tweet : “PM Modi sends Rs 17,100 crore into bank accounts of over 8 crore farmers.” Actually it is the kind of narrative that has become passé especially when you see how Mr Rahul Kanwal underwent convulsions at Mr Pawan Khera’s suggestion that the media […]
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