24 May 2019 Only a fool would still await to see some sliver of wisdom from the nitty gritty of numbers, even as results are still officially not cast in stone for this Lok Sabha. From the dogwhistles, taunts, memes and the macabre innuendo this 2019 campaign was devoid of any ‘pretence’ from the BJP, […]
23 May 2019 Electoral results are meant to convey the national pulse like no other. In that sense, today for individuals, it is a great reflective opportunity to reset their social compass, if they must, or better still to set the True North on their cultural compass, based on values which they perceive has now […]
22 May 19 For a nation accustomed to regular elections, with an ECI with its established authority and a judiciary where the canonical law existed on abuse of office under electoral code of conduct involving a candidate no less than the then Premier of India, what should have been rigmarole has become one of the […]
21 May 2019 Fast gathering pace is the enormity of what could be another of those ‘phantom’ caused wars, like Iraqi WMD which deposed Saddam Hussein for which several million Iraqis paid with their lives and personal wealth, the great farce of Gulf War 2 still lingers in the Persian Gulf, she is very much […]
20 May 2019 It is not winners take all! Actually it has become Whiners All! When we thought we had exhausted ourselves with our grumbles and stumbles, after our chutzpah and fumbles, when we thought we had steered clear of brambles, we find we are not quite there at all! What psychologically we do not […]
19 May 2019 Let me be very clear that what ever Mr Makarand Paranjpe may have written, he does not speak for me! For a person imbued with Dharma and her nuances, for whom a life so far has been interpretation of shadows, of hues and layers, there is such a thing as a limit! […]
14 May 2019 In my assessment of the Easter Sunday Blasts that rocked the island straddling coast to coast, I had hinted at a more deeper sinister plot of polarising and alluded to other events in the larger South Asian context, including several such incidents under investigation in India. So if one saw now the […]
10 May 19 We all know the parable where an Arab was halted for the night in a windy night over the dunes, when his camel asked him if it could keep its head snug inside the tent! Then the camel extends to itself the hospitality of the tent and when it enters the tent […]
8 May 2019 “Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that’s all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.” Justice Felix Frankfurter US SC. This quote I chanced upon in a discussion of the legal community […]
6 May 2019 (Honest disclaimer- It has been more than a year since I stopped watching any news on TV, and I am trying to develop a taste for ‘Editorji’ an app based news media headed by Vikram Chandra.) The thing about our Post Truth world is how each of us feels that this is […]
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