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Hindsight is always 20X20. Nonetheless, as it is but human frailty (or strength) to sustain itself on hope, hopefully the New Year 2020 and the new decade will offer us the clarity we need with the necessary foresight. The year past has clearly left us...

The history of war worldwide is replete with espionage dramas and a lot of disinformation, misinformation and honey traps. They have often worked far more effectively than advanced weaponry. The Wehrmacht (German army), for instance, was considered invincible for a while with the kind of...

Indian Railways has a feather on its otherwise dull cap; which is that the present fiscal, so far, luckily has not witnessed any death due to mishaps on its vast network. Nor did the three initial months of this year; meaning a full year of...

These days in India have brought us an accurate reproduction of the days leading up to Partition. Indians are being forced to choose their politics based on religion because the state is insisting on it. The Prime Minister is capable of identifying protesters by the...

A few months ago, the highly publicised resignations by three IAS officers created consternation in government circles. Kannan Gopinathan, an AGMUT cadre officer and Sasikanth Senthil, a Karnataka cadre officer, resigned from service alleging the shrinking space for dissent in the country. They cited the...

In aggregate, payments banks — Airtel, India Post, Fino, Jio, NSDL and Paytm among them — have seen their losses mount to Rs 626 crore in March 2019 from Rs 515.6 crore the previous year. It raises questions about the banking system that the Reserve...

All of us want peace on earth; but as we grow in size, we humans have become more distressed and drift apart from each other. While we live together like lemmings, we do not behave like lemmings who live in harmony. We have split the...

The Union government has pushed for cleanliness within the country through its Swachh Bharat Mission. But it appears the space programme of the country may be guilty of littering the final frontier; at least Pakistan’s Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry thinks so. He...

Significantly, the BJP lost power and tasted defeat in one more state that went to Assembly polls. Jharkhand saw an anti-Modi verdict as results were out on Monday. The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and its allies, the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) together,...

The loss of lives and destruction of property during the current countrywide protests against Citizenship (Amendment) Act is extremely saddening. The Act, per se, makes no secret of its intentions. But its ambiguity is the cause for discomfort and is precisely placed in a way...