The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
1. Lakes beautiful
When nothing else works on days you are feeling dull, down and out, a water body around you, specifically in the confines of the mountains. That is the impact that Mansarovar had on me. Here are some of the beautiful ones.
Twenty years back, Indian IT companies would have a bond on the employees they sent abroad. The Indian IT employees were treated as indentured labor. They were paid pittance and the IT companies earned in millions. All in the name of training and sending them abroad. Now the American hospitals are doing that to the nurses.
When it comes to money, the western employers are no better than their other opportunist brethren.
Is the Universe expanding or oscillating between expansion and contraction? This was the question with the scientists back in the 1900s. Including Einstein.
Hubble, however, first conjectured that universe is expanding. After a century of telescope observations and scientific calculations for the Hubble Constant, finally in 2019, the error was brought down to 2%.
While the Dutch scientist Willem de Sitter argued that the universe was expanding, the Russian scientist Alexander Friedmann's argument was it was oscillating.
Birds have been known to travel thousands of miles via ships - cargo and passengers. They make their journey as unexpected stowaways. The whole story is fascinating!
Ballet is about showing the ease with how the ballerina prances around gracefully. But the greatest contradiction is that ballet routine is anything but of ease.
“Blood builds character,” one of my teachers said when he noticed a dancer’s toes beginning to bleed through her shoe. Yet ballet isn’t training to endure sustained agony in the body alone; it is also training to endure it in the mind.
It is useful to know what really happens under the façade of grace and beauty. Blood.
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The I.N.D.I.A alliance has clearly expressed its election plank - annihilation of Sanatan Dharma or Hinduism. In order to dismantle the Modi government. It is not an electoral battle anymore but a civilizational battle now.
Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven wrote about disruptive militant protests in 1966. Movements like Occupy, Woke protests were its offsprings. Even in India, anti-Modi government protests bear its imprint. An analysis.
'The Vaccine War' is a beautiful story of very complex times. Vivek Agnihotri has weaved together a masterpiece dealing with a subject very few would have touched. The pandemic and the triumph of India.
Chandrayaan-3 landing on South side of moon was not just the triumph of scientists at ISRO today but a tradition and history of science that looks at exploration as a spiritual path. It is a story of a battle against all odds and challenges!
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