27 April 2021 Right now it seems like each moment is an eternity, there appears to be a Dance of Death, one that plays out with people struggling, gasping as if in a trance, before dropping dead. The science of Corona viruses and particularly that of this SARS CoV2 with her posse of variants of […]
Tag: Indian Democracy
06 April 2021The Indian Scholastic system underwent a major change from whatever indigenous systems operated to the British system, which for context can be called Macaulay system. It was an effort to churn out Indians who were English in Heart and Mind, given to British Sensibilities and who would depict themselves in public life in […]
05 April 2021 For those who do not know, if there is a grass roots ‘son/daughter of soil’ armed struggle in India that has no ethnic or religious affiliation it is this of Communist orientation, labelled after China’s first CCP Chairman Mao and known in security and socioeconomic discussions as Maoists/Naxals. ( The Naxal is […]
03 April 2021 If you can put partisan politics aside for a moment, then you can actually look at the Burns-Rahul virtual tête-à-tête as perhaps the biggest conversation India and the US had in recent times, which was done in the public domain.It was a very adult conversation, one where the seasoned diplomat was engaging […]
2021 India’s Destination 3
30 December 2020 ‘Divorce or Discovery?’ So where are we headed now? We are now in a ‘each person to themselves’ situation, one made politically palatable by our Prime Minister using the Atmanirbhar slogan! Folks more astutely observing the political scenario are warning that we are heading toward some kind of bottomless abyss, which is […]
29 December 2020 So will we ever see a Stacey Abrams? Will we hear an Indian version of Mayor Pete? Two key voices that mobilised American voters in this election of 3 November 2020 that saw the highest turnout in recorded American election history, at the height of this pandemic! We know Trump almost toppled […]
2021 India’s Destination
28 December 2020 There is nothing like destiny said an elder. We have chosen this arc of our times in ways we have yet to understand, but for which we have sufficient pointers. I am sure that if we looked at 2020, we started as a country may be a bit nervous, but no one […]