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?
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
VACATION NOTE: After a long time, we will take a break for a vacation during the long weekend. This weekend's email will not come through. Meanwhile, wanted to share this link with commentaries on the verses in the first Chapter, I had written over a decade back. Please read through these in the meanwhile. If you find this useful, then I can attempt the subsequent chapters.
Contrary to what the jokers at AAP say, the fact is that its goons like Satyendar Jain have masterminded money laundering. Now, even the Delhi High Court has called it out.
Former Delhi cabinet minister Satyendar Jain is the "conceptualizer, visualizer and executor" of the entire operation through which money has allegedly been laundered, the Delhi High Court observed.
Read the article and think about it when you listen to Arvind Kejriwal next time as he eulogizes Jain again.
When Constitution makers started writing the Indian Constitution, they began with a dim view of the people in whom they were to vest the power to rule themselves. Ambedkar famously said:
“Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realise that our people have yet to learn it. Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil, which is essentially undemocratic.“
Contrary to the rather narrow views of Ambedkar, the fact is that Dharma is the reason why democracy is alive in India. And finally someone says it the way it is. Justice Swaminathan of Madras High Court.
"Constitution is the ultimate for everyone. If the Constitution has to remain the same, the demographic profile that existed at the time of its (the Constitution's) formation must remain unaltered. Only if the demographic profile remains the same, will the Constitution remain the same. If the demographic profile changes, the Constitution will perish," Justice Swaminathan said.
If the demographic in the country changes, you don't need to speculate how India will be. In India vs Pakistan you have a perfect Social Laboratory experiment - "All things being equal change just one variable and see the results."
Supreme Court justices are a bunch of double-speaking bunch. Let us simply out the stuff here for you to make your own idea.
CJI was mad at the media for criticizing the judiciary and judges. Aww, that's cute. He wants the media to desist from "media trials" and that lovely word of democracy. One can see he stopped short of banning certain media houses.
The Indian judiciary is all over the place. Irrespective, the fact is that High Courts in the states should NOT be subservient to the Supreme Court. They are the law in their states. The Supreme Court, however, does not believe so. And it comes out in this communique as well. Why would the Supreme Court want to herd the State courts into one ideological stand?
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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