5 May 2019 Just when you thought you had seen it all, this season comes across like a Mahabharata, Vyasa narrating one story at multiple levels, about how difficult it is to practise Dharma and how nuanced it remains to accept it! When Draupadi asks the Sages why Dharma deserted them in the Hall of […]
4 May 2019 Political morality appeared to be an oxymoron once, and then for reasons perhaps of consolidation and trench warfare, political morality seemed to surface, especially after the Bommai Judgement, where the Supreme Court clearly ruled that assemblies will get to test their support on floor of the house, and this along with the […]
03 May 19 The Barr testimony is on, and that is not what makes this tragic headline. William Barr Attorney General of USA, when he issued that four page apology of a synopsis about the Mueller report, which now has been contested by the special prosecutor himself, and his deposition to the Congress denying and […]
2 May 2019 News broke out that China had sought to concede on Masood Azhar resolution which it had placed on technical hold for couple of months, a resolution it had vetoed earlier in the UNSC, one brought in by France after Pulwama happened. For some reasons an immature Indian media played on it as […]
27 April 19 From 2014, those heady months leading up to May, to now, there are crucial differences. It is for us to notice or ignore these, the first crucial one is the lack of any anger now against the Congress Party, which has been viewed by people as the natural party of India’s social […]
27 April 2019 The news of Iran being declared off limits for oil imports crept in surreptitiously as if the Model Code of Conduct applied to bad international news. Anywhere between 01 to 02 litres of every ten litres of crude comes from the Persian Gulf to India’s refineries. It has its ripple effect, being […]
26 April 2019 Honestly I did not even want to go there. From a smattering of tweets on this issue, I could make out that the Chief Justice has been accused of sexual harassment. That his case is being brought in by a lawyer who refuses/ seeks privilege to not reveal all the evidence at […]
25 April 2019 So what was the emerging picture? It reveals so far that a group of young men, with independent financial backing staged this series of attacks many of which did not cause quite the intended damage they aught to. Sri Lanka is on the process of promising a clean up, and the President […]
24 April 2019 The National Tawheed Jamaath has been placed on the cross hairs of this investigation, their leader Zahran Hashim at the centre of it, even as dozens have been arrested including six from a Colombo suburb produced before a magistrate within the first 24 hours of the terror attacks. The lead question for […]
What is the narrative backdrop to this random act seemingly of violence that ripped apart Sri Lanka at her waist geographically, targeting centres on either coast, killing and maiming hundreds? From the cursory survey of targets it was clear that Churches and hotels were targeted. Were they targets in retaliation to Christchurch? Were these acts […]
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