30 September 2019 It is now more than 50 days, but more importantly we are about to enter the winter season of the Himalayan region. The Summer stretching from May to September is over, and there is a small window left before the snows blanket the region. A tactician would have two key areas to […]
29 September 2019 What has been a travesty of our Post Truth world is that a run on Institutions is not just happening in a democracy like ours, where the voter is disenfranchised not because the vote is not there, but because that vote has narrow considerations, affixed to linkage through castes, anchored in identity- […]
27 September 2019 #SC decision-inaction,&implication In a predictable and satisfying way, Mr Boris Johnson found himself in a spot and a bind, after the SC of UK announced 11-0, that abrogation of Parliament was unlawful. The first and foremost reason offered by Lady Hale as she presided over the Court was the litmus of reasonable […]
26 September 2019 The euphoria of triumphalism has become so heady that it has reached its peak, so think many. The impenetrable mood of celebration over the Houston event where so many Congressmen and the POTUS joined the stage with Mr Modi making it a celebration of Indian Americans, where they were toasting their arrival […]
24 September 2019 #India’sFutureReadiness India is in a tough place now, seen not long ago as a country sure to compete with China, as a challenger to the Factory of the World, she is in the opinion of a growing chorus in SNAFU! The reason for such extremism with regard to her greatness is not […]
23 September 2019 #AnEconomyDerailed #Don’tBlameSitaraman I am actually languid, a luxury I can afford with my consulting and analytical work, after retiring from a life of a daily metronome. Hence my take on the Bahikatha or budget was to wait and watch. Now I have lost count of all the incremental changes announced by Ms […]
#UKParliamentProrogued 20 September 2019 Do not go gentle into that good night… https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night One of India’s leading commentators on judicial matters has been tweeting and writing now about Supreme Court of Convenience and his broad arguments were carried in The Hindu about the abdication of the highest court of India of what she is meant […]
17 September 2019 #USAfghanPolicy #IndiaKashmirPolicy #AramcoDroneStrike The gallery of the gallant seems to now thinning out. In what can be called a chaotic chorus, we can see fast the ranks of the hosannah sayers changing to the nay sayers. It now appears with the removal from the scene of late Ms Sushma Swaraj and late […]
10 September 2019 #HongKong #Brexit It is now quite clear that we are approaching a kind of situation we encounter which the brave would call a stale mate. A even seesaw that does not allow us to rest either on our laurels or give up on our hopes. It can be nerve wracking to be […]
6 September 2019 Yesterday a veteran wrote a piece that was nostalgic about his days as a young officer in Kashmir, circa 1969. In his prosaic and pertinent style he drove a simple nail home, that Kashmir was singular as a province, that its citizens did have a claim for being regarded with deference, and […]
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