Redefining Patriotism In A Post COVID-19 India
byIn a world increasingly being taken over by a totalitarian right wing ideology (and India is very much there, along with the USA, UK,…
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Social Distancing Is A Cakewalk For Us
byNotwithstanding 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
byNature 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.
Advent of the Useless Class and Artificial Intelligence by 2030
byPropounding A Fictional Conspiracy Theory; Advent of the Useless Class and Artificial Intelligence by 2030: with referral to a McKinsey Report on a SE…
WORRY ABOUT THE TRUST DEFICIT, NOT THE FISCAL DEFICIT
byThe country is now firmly caught in a vicious, stagflationary downward spiral. And the reason is not the fiscal deficit, that bugbear of economists,…
NRC Blisters to CAA Balm?
byNews headlines of March 2 read ‘Foreign secretary in Bangladesh with CAA balm’. The report said the foreign secretary is in Dhaka with primary…
Gods, Hammurabi And Kejriwal – Reflections On The ‘New’ India
byI’m not a very religious person but have impeccable scriptural credentials which would impress any east Delhi arsonist- as a Saryupari Brahmin I sit…
Streamlining J&K Politics
byMedia reports of February 24 state that splinter groups from Congress, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and National Conference (NC) have come together to launch…
Getting A (Non)Sense Of The Budget
byMy 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
byA poison can only be combated one way- by the infected body producing its own antibodies to counter the venom. The struggle is painful…