My wife and I took our vaccinations on the third of this month. I was a bit apprehensive of the jab because I’d read somewhere that nine out of ten vaccines are in vein, but Neerja didn’t bat an eyelid – she said that she had been dealing with pricks all her life. She gave […]
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India’s farmers have sustained the largest protests in modern Indian history since Mahatma Gandhi and the independence movement. While Gandhi’s khadi dhoti appeared in media worldwide, the farmers received relatively scant attention until cultural stars like Rihanna and Greta Thunberg tweeted and Disha Ravi, the granddaughter of a farmer, was arrested. Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste:
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The latter half of February this year has been an interesting time for our crumbling judicial architecture and our mauled Constitution. It is a truism in the military that wars are won by foot soldiers, not by generals. This is not to belittle the contributions of the top brass but to emphasise the obvious: that
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Of all the books that have been published on the Coronavirus and the Lockdown, Professor Arun Kumar’s Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis is the first book to examine the impact of these global phenomena on the Indian economy. Initially, I thought it exaggerated to claim that the current crisis is the greatest one that India has
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There are two certain ways to lose a friend: one, have an affair with his wife; two, start a discussion on politics. The first can occasionally be a tempting prospect, for as the wise guy said: all best things in life are either illegal, immoral or married to someone else. Having an affair just got
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Speech has special significance for human beings. One who cannot express herself or himself in words is a piteous creature. Anyone who is not free to express herself or himself is a slave. They who dare not express themselves are cowards. On the other hand, he who expresses himself adequately is a civilized person. She
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, says Yuval Noah Harari in his book ” 21 Lessons For The 21st Century”. If anyone doubts this truism he has only to see what we have been doing to the Himalayas for the last three decades, particularly in Himachal and Uttarakhand, in the name of development. This stupidity also
Himalayan Blunders, Tragic Ironies, Retargeting Glaciers. Read More »
DID CHRIST FAIL RAVI ZACHARIAS OR WAS IT THE HYDRA OF CHRISTIANITY? https://youtu.be/T7yjKQ0a2pw American writer, Jack Lee wrote, “culture is an unforgiving animal that will eat its own if given a chance.” Well, the knives are out for the late author and apologist Ravi Zacharias and the people pointing fingers to his depravity seem to
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What was staged in the Capitol, Washington, DC, on 6 January 2021 was a hybrid event: part religious, part political. At the centre of it was the image of the QAnon shaman, Jacob Anthony Chansley, alias Jake Angeli, described picturesquely by Chris Cuomo of the CNN as the ‘horned heathen’. Angeli is no politician. Nor
US Democracy: The Agenda Beyond Impeachment. Read More »
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