However much folksy wisdom may weigh in, the events of last year, that culminated in the insurgency at the Capitol which was thwarted by loss of life, presence of mind and stroke of divine probability, is actually a serious fracture in the compact of democracy as is practised through universal suffrage across the global commons […]
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10 November 2021 For a continent size island, located in Indo Pacific region, Australia has always played a second fiddle even after decades when Great Britain whose former colony she once was, proved to be a lesser power, after a brief skirmish over Falklands (1980s) with Argentina which the then British Government used to reclaim […]
6 January 2021 The idiom ‘ brazen it out’ acquired a whole new meaning since 2016 with the advent of Trumpism, which has had its epoch from the Inauguration Day 2017 when the famous ‘crowds for the swearing in’ came into fray, signalling a beginning of a Presidential term that was going to be based […]
America & The Vote
9 November 2020 I never thought that such words would emerge from my desk, devoid of my innate sense of optimism, a flair for the naiveté and brimming with the hope that humanism always serves with unvarnished optimism. That I would condemn the Americans as a misogynist, racist, atavistic, parochial and anti science conglomerate of […]