05 July 19 Easter Sunday bombings have led to increase in isolation of Muslim communities in Sri Lanka as per some reports, there were definitely clashes between Buddhists and Muslims and Muslims and Christians which were isolated and was somehow contained and not allowed to become another national emergency for the island nation. (https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/06/06/sri-lanka-responds-to-islamist-terrorism-by-terrorising-muslims) While […]
Census Senses!
04 July 19 The dramatic manner in which President Trump assured Americans that his administration will work around the Supreme Court order that kept citizenship question from the Census Questionnaire, was in absolute contrast to how quietly an official of the Justice Department and an official in charge of the Census informed Americans that the […]
King Kong!
02 July 19 While Indian liberals mull over what they describe as a ‘state of undeclared emergency’ where admittedly they had a faustian bargain with the UPA and feel abandoned in the NDA, they can take a leaf out of Hong Kong as a civil resistance that shows what ordinary people are capable of, if […]
01 July 19 Predominantly saffron/ orange hues of the jerseys the Indians wore became a matter for the media to discuss. Why? Because some Congress legislator as an MLA made a reference to this as an answer to a question, his fears being whether the tricolour was being replaced in national consciousness by saffron! Actually […]
Deflection or reflection?
27 June 19 A purely political pickle would have ingredients that would be slow poison curing the dross to a finesse. No one quite saw the current grasp the RSS has on India’s polity even as late as 1992, even as later as 2002, and even as latest as 2014. Still, the only way to […]
To Deal Or Not Deal!
25 June 19 Shakespeare wrote ‘to be or not to be, that is the question’ it was deemed to be the most wonderful usage of disambiguation, where the turn of phrase allows Hamlet to express his constant contemplation on suicide. It would be ironical to see how UK is now on the question of Brexit. […]
Forever the crucifix!
21 June 19 It is tempting to state that today bearing the cross of the medical profession must seem like a curse to most of them! The pressure from public levers is always on doctors, to provide affordable care, to provide doorstep care, to provide rural care, to provide in house care, to provide personal […]
Flotsam
20 June 19 Former Naval Chief Admiral Arun Prakash tweeted from Paris Air Show the HAL was missing, their bird- LCA was nowhere in sight even as Pakistanis were there with JF17s in both static and flying displays. The Modi regime which at the end of its first tenure singled out HAL for some unwarranted […]
A Pox on all their Houses!
19 June 19 From the extreme of disappointment and in the face of air brushing of facts and circumstances, one American wrote on the thread of @AOC who is their best bet as a freshman Congresswoman to find solutions to the muddle that now swarms America- A pox on all their houses! It is a […]
The Deranging & Doctoring World!
17 June 19 Today should have been a day for great celebration, instead it must be one of great consternation. We won with Pakistan at the Cricket game in the World Cup Cricket, but then, that was par for the course, we were overwhelming favourites not just on current rankings, but also on the basis […]