21 January 2020 #NeoCapitalism # DarkWeb At this moment, the events that are uppermost are the least of our concerns. We have Delhi Police officially Tweeting to the general public to vacate Shaheen Bagh as a protest arena as it is causing traffic hassles to general public and to school children, we have a petition […]
20 January 2020 There are strands that reveal that the Government is flustered. Hence it is trying out various flanks, like using Niti Ayog Vice Chair to accuse Kashmiris of using the internet for porn, even as Kashmiris complain that the new sanitised list of internet sites that they can access does not allow even […]
Rajatarangini
17 January 2020 #Kashmir #Article370 I am no Kalhana though I feel that the archives that are the history of Kashmir must be continued from where he left off…for the Vitasta continues to flow, the Neelum and Jhelum do, his land that once enthroned the great seeker Lalithaditya is now riven with divisions and just […]
The Army Under CDS
15 January 2020 We can say that the presser held on the eve of the Army Day today by the new Chief General Naravane was a clear attempt to sort of reboot the narrative of the Army. What the solid soldiering General stressed was allegiance to the Constitution of India, going as far as to […]
The Carnage Midair
13 January 2020 Now that Iran has accepted responsibility for downing an Ukrainian passenger jet within minutes of its take off from Teheran, the international aviation community needs to revisit the tenets of how it reacts to volatile situations and prevents incidents of the nature that occurred in Teheran and the downing of a Air […]
11 January 2020 It is now widely accepted that India’s numbers are her new plague. Now fairly most discussions in the public domain do not skirt around whether we are in ‘recession’ or our economic performance is underwhelming or that we are staring at an abyss whose depth and dangers are unfathomable to us, because […]
The Vidhata of India
9 January 2020 This is a time when being a dead poet is as dangerous as being one struggling to place rhymes on a string! Eking out a literary living is proving to be something of a ‘cat on hot tin roof’ experience, with so many somersaults and paw tip straddling and balancing that still […]
Plumbing in Darkness
7 January 2020 #Suleimani Few people with any sense of what is happening in our world would be making sense of what the Iraqi PM informed Parliament, that the convoy targeting that killed General Suleimani along with an Iraqi leader was actually coming back proposals for a new detente for Saudi Arabia. A vote followed […]
Suleimani scalp: Signals decoded
3 January 2020 #Suleimani First let us be very clear that no world war is going to start over the capital strike that killed the head of Iran’s special Intelligence and covert operations chief Major General Suleimani.(https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/baghdad-airport-strike-live-intl-hnk/h_0be255a08b898f0fd737f7d19076a060) Iran have already named his deputy as the next one to helm the operations, shows how the Islamic […]
The Topicality of 2019
31 December 2019 Was this Annulus Horribilis? How do you view a year that started with the death of four dozen CRPF personnel in Pulwama and ended with the death of more than two dozen citizens in UP? How do you look at the year ending Mann Ki Baat by PM Modi as he eloquently […]