Tag: Satyen Bordoloi
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Mao Zedong’s role in COVID-19 (Sify)
Pandemics are not created in a vacuum. A whole mix of ingredients makes up the conundrum. When the coronavirus pandemic wanes, China should become a case study and warning to the rest…
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Davinder Singh – the man who helped bring two nuclear powers to war twice
What the arrest of senior Jammu and Kashmir police officer Davinder Singh with two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists purportedly on way to Delhi to carry out a terror attack on Republic day does,…
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50 Years of R&AW – Is India’s foreign spy agency dreaded or dreadful?
Is R&AW dreaded or dreadful, effective or affectlessly irrelevant, a proactive shaper of India’s history and foreign policy or a bumbling reactionary force? As R&AW turns 50 today, it is worth investigating…
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Forgetting the most influential non-political Indian on his 100th birthday
This column is not to recount R N Kao’s successes or failures; he saw both in good measures. For despite the paucity, there have been some books both by his colleagues and…
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Fight against corruption: A letter to my fellow Indians
The current anti-corruption agitation is nothing but that pill that will not weed out corruption or the nation’s illnesses. You have just popped a pill and it will take care of the…
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Peepli Live: A brilliant farce on India, its Politics, Media and People
Peepli Live (a pun on ‘People Live’) is not fiction, but a mirror to our disgusting society, politics, government, media and each one of us. It stamps a hard slap at the…