13 July 2022 It would be a travesty to view recent happenings globally as the best outcome of a form of government which dates to great antiquity. Both India and Greece can lay claim to origins of this form of ‘self rule’, which existed alongside the more prevalent form of accepting an ‘overlordship’. Suzerain versus […]
Tag: RW Majoritarianism
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 […]
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 […]
10 March 2021 I was not surprised to hear that Piers Morgan was getting the boot after his comments disparaging Meghan Markle on ITV’s morning show. I have often felt that if television and print media needed one boot right now, it is to boot out Mr Rupert Murdoch, to banish this evil person from […]
17 February 2021 A scam of novelty appears to have burst in the RW firmament. First was a conventional expose of RW Troll army led by an aspiring star Mr Kapil Mishra, against whom a conscience keeper Mr Harsh Mander has gone to the Delhi HC to get the police to register an FIR for […]
The Bregman Commandments
29 January 2021 The funniest thing is how the ideas that one author has offered are in many ways so self reaffirming for many who have been thinking all along on those very lines. I had a friend and mentor whose understanding of interpersonal relationships, I had even dubbed as ‘Pach Principles’ which was a […]
The Drama That Destroyed America
8 January 2021 I wanted to see signs of positivity in the swirling cesspool that engulfed America finally before Trump quit office. It was something I had stuck my neck out and predicted, I had even hoped America would avoid this situation by a Democratic landslide, which didn’t. It is not that Republicans have a […]
A Snap Shot of All that is Wrong!
28 August 2020 It is as if USA decided to treat itself to a preview premiere of sorts, with one series of events where first a black man ( yet again and in the midst of all this #BlackLivesMatter) was shot in the back when he was reaching out for something in his car, luckily […]