With Highest Positives And Deaths Per 24 Hours In The World, India Needs Urgent Re-thinking Of Its Strategy along-with Pooled Testing

Highest deaths and highest positives per day, there is just gloom on the corona tracker for India but there are still few things that we can get right even now.

India: This Is Not How You Fight A Pandemic

There are 6,653 cases of COVID-19 in India as of 9 April 11:45 PM. And this is despite India testing the least. And our government is broadcasting these comparative low numbers as some sort of success. Think of this. If India had not tested anyone at all then India would have had zero SARS-CoV-2 positive […]

End Of Innocence

The plant that we so diligently watered and cared for has grown into a big banyan; full of flowers and fruits. Own it now. 53 people have lost their lives in the Delhi riots. You have heard this already. But do you see the problem here? Riot? Was it really a riot? Is it a riot […]

On Kashmir, India Went Back on Its Constitutional Promise Showing It Can Now ‘Legally’ Do Anything Given Its Brute Majority

Yesterday, Indian Parliament headed by BJP which enjoys brute majority declared Article 370 which gave Kashmir special status in Indian union revoked, it bifurcated the Jammu and Kashmir state into two parts, and it also declared both the parts as Union Territories. The reason why they did this is one part of a debatable story; […]

From publishers asking censorship to those reviewing without reading — Who is afraid of Rana Ayyub’s Gujarat Files?

It is a fact well known that not all drafts gets published and turn into books, and how publishers choose what they will print and what they won’t. Most of the times their decisions are legit and have something to do with literary value of the draft at hand but not all the time. Stories […]

Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party scripts history crushing Narendra Modi wave – Is it Aam Aadmi’s victory or Modi’s defeat?

The creator of Common Man, late RK Laxman sir would have been triumphant to see his common man script history on political mindscape of India. His common man is no more the silent spectator but have grown to be wise enough now to exercise his power which our system bestows him once in five years. […]