Following The (Toilet) Paper Trail
So here’s your question of the week, dear reader: when an eighteen trillion dollar economy starts collapsing what do people rush to buy? If…
Redefining Patriotism In A Post COVID-19 India
In a world increasingly being taken over by a totalitarian right wing ideology (and India is very much there, along with the USA, UK,…
Social Distancing Is A Cakewalk For Us
Notwithstanding that I am an ardent admirer of Mr. Shashi Tharoor’s prose I have to jump the gun on him this week and propose…
Sermons In Stones, Lesson From Pathogens
Nature is striking back and may kill many more than the bubonic plague and the Spanish flu, primarily because of our burgeoning population and changed life styles.
WORRY ABOUT THE TRUST DEFICIT, NOT THE FISCAL DEFICIT
The country is now firmly caught in a vicious, stagflationary downward spiral. And the reason is not the fiscal deficit, that bugbear of economists,…
Gods, Hammurabi And Kejriwal – Reflections On The ‘New’ India
I’m not a very religious person but have impeccable scriptural credentials which would impress any east Delhi arsonist- as a Saryupari Brahmin I sit…
Getting A (Non)Sense Of The Budget
My mathematical skills have always been in doubt; I do not have a head for figures, except the hour glass ones, and the sands…
Delhi Elections – The Poison Has Run Its Course
A poison can only be combated one way- by the infected body producing its own antibodies to counter the venom. The struggle is painful…
Radicalisation Is Not A One Way Street
” Radicalisation”- the action or process of causing someone to adopt radical (extreme) positions on political or social issues. (Cambridge dictionary) The conventional or…
Fudged Figures, Solemn Promises, Disappearing Trees
Caught up in the maelstrom of divisive politics, India is silently but surely sliding into an environmental abyss under Mr. Modi’s watch. The latest…