4 August 2021 Continuing with this vein of strategic rigidity, from Afghanistan’s Taliban woes, we can shift toward how the last seven years has been a series of mixed events, opportunities that were offered by the arrival on the national stage by Mr Modi as a person with no baggage, and his audacious attempt to […]
Tag: India's Credibility Crises
20 July 2021 A mythical winged steed that was per legend born from the union of Poseidon a Varuna equivalent who was also the God of Horses, and a Gorgon Medusa, one of three such hideous creatures that had serpents for strands of hair, who were winged females human like. So if we don’t delve […]
12 July 2021 Right now the fancy variants of concern of the SARS CoV2 virus are getting labelled in Greek alphabet, only here too, there is extreme reluctance to label them that way, because I guess the scientists do not wish to run out of options. So we had a ‘Delta Plus’ before we have […]
HEADLINES From The Hindu on 29 June and 3 July 2021 say it all! 03 July 2021 We have had much of back and forth on the Jammu Air Force Base as well as some Army border posts, claiming the passes made by drones allegedly tossing some explosives that would have damaged the sensitive security […]
29 June 2021 After what we can now see as an effort to demonstrate a clear uptick in administered vaccines per day, the renewed national roll out now fully subsidised by the Union Government is underway with the same underwhelming performance that has marked most endeavours since the beginning of 2020 when the PM promised […]
26 June 2021 For three days, I have been trying to meditate on what are the take aways from the Delhi meeting of members of JK polity with the Union Governmental leadership. This is no ‘all party meet’ to kickstart political process after it has stayed halted in the aftermath of the announcements of August […]
22 June 2021 Numbers can actually detract from this thread bare discussion, so I will skip it to the extent I can. I make conclusions ahead of the evidence that most countries are on the same wicket as far as Covid19 Pandemic numbers including economic ones are concerned, perhaps because, most political leadership is but […]
17 June 2021 “Do you know that laboratories conducted a lakh fake Corona Tests during the Kumbh?” Screamed the person in earshot to her companion, as the duo made their claim to the bench in the park. A version of this happened on Twitter when some people tagged others to this very same news. I […]
8 May 2021 It is very easy for Indians now to give up. It seems that our problems are not just because of now, but because for decades we have evaded the investment that our health warranted and our private sector did not get the kind of incentives it needed to step up to the […]
India’s Covid Fight Back
30 April 2021 This is probably the bleakest moment for many Indians who rose out of poverty and made material success and celebrated Indian spirituality as they understood it, the pulpy Ramanand Sagar TV opus form, and who were looking to scale even greater heights under Mr Modi’s leadership. The way India is now taking […]