14 March 2020 #IdesOfMarch #Covid19 #CoronaPandemic No one knows for sure, but historical assumption does not rule out the role disease of epidemic nature from altering the course of nation states and awarded them premature end to their run or pedestal to start a home run from. In modern times that we live in, many […]
12 March 2020 Irony could have blushed with how we use the term ‘Viral’ these days and completely lost it when confronted with an actual virus! Remember how much of January and February of 2020 was European and American grand standing, trying to put down China as she struggled with the Covid-19 contagion from Wuhan? […]
11 March 2020 Since the Shah-Modi team are fond of spectacle, we saw the carefully orchestrated drama on Holi of Mr Jyotiraditya Scindia finally leave the INC by resigning his primary membership of the party in a letter addressed to interim President Ms Sonia Gandhi dated 9 March but delivered on the 10th. If this […]
8 March 2020 In memory, we have never been so extensively documented as a social network since this advent of internet of things and social media. One of the biggest plusses of this advent has been how mainstream media can place us no longer in peril, can even list and plunge head-on like the Titanic […]
27 February 2020 #ShaheenBagh #DelhiRiots2020 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-citizenship-protests-survivor/a-mob-out-for-blood-indias-protests-pit-hindus-against-muslims-idUSKCN20K2V8 We can say that there is a lot of heartening events happening on ground in what is now Battleground Delhi! That unlike even 1984 or 2002, or the Rwandan model, neighbours are still that, neighbours, and daring even to come around as a coalition of the good and willing […]
26 February 2020 We will scarce believe that our stodgy diplomats allowed a foreign dignitary to visit India, hold a Electoral Rally type Stadium address, and then have a press conference without our executive counterpart, i.e. the PM of India and tick off all personal and private agendas of his visit while bagging $3 billion […]
22 February 2020 #CentralVista #NewIndia There is a popular saying that don’t fix it if it ain’t broke! Well, for what ever reasons, a big new fix is now emerging over Lutyens Delhi, which will not just alter the landscape of the Central Vista but will also directly affect the way India’s Departments dealing with […]
20 February 2020 #WomenEmpowerment One aspect of Government that has not changed is the bureaucratic buck transfer using the phrase ‘subjudice’. It must have weighed in if at all one wishes to translate Mr Modi’s grandstanding about ‘Nari Shakti’ by offering permanent posts to women officers in India’s Army, for our wonderment is otherwise not […]
15 February 2020 #Pulwama #ModifyingIndia Dr Abdul Kalam the charismatic late President and Missile Man would find that very befitting that Apple has taken his iconic ‘I have wings and I can fly! I can fly!’ message to the next generation of kids through its advertisement. What India had under Dr Kalam was a Presidency […]
12 February 2020 I had blogged about this earlier in ‘Beating Retreat’ a fortnight back, and it gives me no pleasure to be proved right. For those who know me, and for those who don’t, cynicism is the farthest thing that I would ever embrace, for I have been instilled in an inborn optimism that […]
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