7 February 2020 It was bound to happen. Just when people were promised honesty and humility by a chastised President, Trump came out to revel in his Senate Acquittal in a fashion that was beyond brazen. Not only did he trash Mitt Romney a very senior senator and Republican who once ran for President for […]
5 February 2020 https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/02/04/pete-buttigieg-speech-iowa-caucus-sot-vpx.cnn It is uncanny how Trump is going to hammer a message to Americans about Democrats using Iowa. How many Americans feel that the rank incompetence and chaos of the Democrat Primary in Iowa is for them a clear indication to keep Trump II as an option. Of course, we know that […]
3 February 2020 #BlueprintForNewIndia I juggled between number crunching and whether roughly the numbers back the intent or content of the Budget Speech that emerged from the Bahikatha this year. I decided that numbers would mean preparing a table, paring it down, and I am not upto a presentation of the Budget in any case. […]
3 February 2020 The Budget was changed by Mr Jaitley, when he changed the date, when the Railway Budget was subsumed into the National Budget.The major changes were not these, the major changes were how normal bills got converted into money bills, like the one that brought in Electoral Bonds for Political party financing, or […]
1 February 2020 #WoodAreLovelyDarkAndDeep #RobertFrost ‘I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep’…There are not many more such evocative phrases that readers have recalled in their memories and lives, as the one I began with. It is recorded that Nehru had recalled these very words in his Diary or Book of […]
30 January 2020 Today is the day when in 1948, Mr Godse managed to kill the Mahatma finally. On this day years ago, that light was snuffed out, which had threatened to at one time consume us with its compassion and its moral authority until it reached a ripe age of 125! India had and […]
29 January 2020 Today the news paper is full of mixed feelings for a diehard optimist. It seems that the cup of disappointment runneth over for now. Whatever caused our world to descend into dystopia so swiftly? Where is that gung-ho festive mood of electoral games that once characterised our chaotic but colourful election seasons? […]
27 January 2020 There was a time when Padma Awards had become a bone of political contention, seen to be an anathema to the ethos of a Republic and the advancement of a equal citizenship sans titles. In fact, the awards were abolished in the immediate aftermath of the Emergency, when many of the leading […]
25 January 2020 #TrumpImpeachmentTrial Half a world away, in USA the most significant claw back of our times is under way. Truth is now attempting to ear worm its way back to the Consciousness of America, a weak yet willing attempt, through the Democrats campaign to Impeach President Trump. Why is this so significant when […]
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 […]
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