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WhatsApp, Privacy and Me

28 May 202129 May 2021 SwordLeave a Comment on WhatsApp, Privacy and Me

Sometime in January, WhatsApp started showing a pop-up asking me to agree to their updated privacy policy if I wanted to continue using the app bRead More…

Gen Thimayya’s Resignation – Statement by Pt Nehru in Parliament and debate – 02 Sep 1959

21 May 202121 May 2021 SwordLeave a Comment on Gen Thimayya’s Resignation – Statement by Pt Nehru in Parliament and debate – 02 Sep 1959

Prime Minister’s Statement Sir, I wish to apologize for my absence from the house yesterday. I was anxious to be here because of a number ofRead More…

CDS and DMA – Penny Wise Pound Foolish?

06 Nov 202006 Nov 2020 SwordLeave a Comment on CDS and DMA – Penny Wise Pound Foolish?

Appointment of CDS and setting up of the Department of Military Affairs (DMA) under him within the Ministry of Defence is a long overdue, ground Read More…

Aam Aadmi Khaas Baat

09 Apr 201709 Apr 2017 SwordLeave a Comment on Aam Aadmi Khaas Baat

Latest in the series of embarrassing revelations about the ostentatious lifestyle that Aam Aadmi Party leaders, and in particular their supremo ArvindRead More…

Breaking the Neo-Caste Barrier

01 Mar 201701 Mar 2017 Sword1 Comment on Breaking the Neo-Caste Barrier

An interesting, and for most of us, encouraging, phenomenon is visible in India today. It is the brick by brick dismantling of the neo-caste system inRead More…

An Open Letter to Aakar Patel

06 Nov 201606 Nov 2016 SwordLeave a Comment on An Open Letter to Aakar Patel

Dear Mr Patel, This is in response to your piece published in today’s TOI under a presumptuously named column ‘AakaarVani’. I’m writing thiRead More…

Close Encounters

01 Nov 201602 Nov 2016 SwordLeave a Comment on Close Encounters

  The trouble with opposition generated and media sustained hype about anything that could be used to embarrass the government is manifoldRead More…

Karan Johar and Capt Boycott

28 Oct 201628 Oct 2016 SwordLeave a Comment on Karan Johar and Capt Boycott

Had Sir Charles Boycott been alive today, he may have empathized with Karan Johar. Wanting to get his lands harvested amidst protests from tenant Read More…

Mere paas Maa hai

19 May 201519 May 2015 SwordLeave a Comment on Mere paas Maa hai

          Since Rahul Gandhi is approximately the same age as me, it would be safe to guess that he watcheRead More…

Mirza Ghalib and the veterans

13 May 2015 SwordLeave a Comment on Mirza Ghalib and the veterans

Mirza Asad-Ullah Khan Ghalib died a poor, miserable man. Like most geniuses, his work got its true approbation long after he wasn’t around to baskRead More…

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