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Continued from https://indiarubbermancom.home.blog/the-unsettling-world-gandhian-view/?frame-nonce=ca8a1bbde2 11 August 2019 Just as India now uses ‘Yadum Ure…’by Kanniyan Ponkundranaarhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaniyan_Pungundranar and Vasudaiva Kutumbakam as Universal Acclamations to espouse her moral ascendency in the comity of nations, she also uses the now much hated Allama Iqbal’s ‘Sare Jehan Se Accha…’ to buttress her notions of being special. Many Indians erroneously think […]

9 August 2019 Today’s generation has no idea of what it was to belong to an ideology or a camp. For veterans of the World Wars and Cold War, it remains a painful, wistful reality that post Colonial Era which briefly saw for four decades the Communist versus Capitalist competition, is now witnessing the lack […]

8 August 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49261795 America had witnessed two back to back episodes of gun violence, which they term nowadays as ‘mass shootings’ and categorise them into ‘random’ or ‘hate’ crime category. So if you see the reports El Paso, Texas shooting that left 22 dead is a Hate Crime whereas the Dayton, Ohio one that […]

6 August 2019 When the elections to the State Assembly got postponed it was clear that the moves on Article 370 were on, and it became increasingly secure to speculate on it when using the smokescreen of a security situation, when Pakistan is having a hard sell with the FATF regime to ensure funding, and […]

Kashmir has changed from once a province which rejected the two nation theory as a Muslim majority area that did not want to accede to Pakistan in contrast with the Muslims of Jammu and other areas in the Princely state at the time of partition, to now a clearly homegrown insurgency that has seen ascent […]

4 August 2019 Are the bets really off? What does one make of the series of moves reported even in international media now underway in Kashmir? A government otherwise working to make Yatras more comfortable and taking initiatives to project yatra as legitimate concerns of majority of its citizens, closing National Highways and actually hiring […]

2 August 2019 In a day extraordinaire the Apex Court of India took notice on its own ( Suo Moto) of the petitions by Unnao Rape victim to intervene and provide justice, after the latest outrage against the victim where she is now struggling for life in an ICU, after a road accident. The powerful […]

https://www.livemint.com/politics/news/business-failures-should-not-be-a-taboo-sitharaman-on-v-g-siddhartha-s-death-1564668732065.html 2 August 2019 It is ironic that one needs to borrow this word to express a notion of ‘Aram’ or even Dharma. ‘Karpu’ is a pristine meaning quite incapable of being divvied, but my morning tryst with keys is to decode this somehow for the reader. Why must one muse over the word that […]

1 August 2019 Who did not grow up having fond memories of Cafe Cofee Day? Why could not VG Siddhartha the founder promoter and boss of CCD go the Ramalinga Raju way, of confessing and allowing the law to take it’s course?What excesses or oversights or acts of wanton cleverness make him contrite and deem […]