A student of Life - in general, and Politics - in particular.
Liberal and undiplomatic.
PhD Candidate (IR) @SouthAsianUni.
Aug 16, 2021 • 17 tweets • 7 min read
So, Mrs. Nirmala Sitharaman says that she can't reduce the fuel prices (among the highest in the immediate South Asian neighbourhood) because
the Modi government has to pay for the past oil bonds (read: sins of the UPA government).
Hmmm!..
Let's see - how dumb she thinks we are
Why were Oil Bonds issued by the Manmohan Singh governments (UPA I and II)?
Because - it wanted to SHIELD Indian consumers (unlike the present regime) from the global Oil price shocks.
Bonds were issued with long maturity times.
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Aug 16, 2021 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
All this 20 years of struggle and, then - cowardly deserting Afghanistan leaves the following conclusions: 1) There is a limit to the effectiveness of, even, the 'boots-on-the-ground' measures. No matter how overwhelming the forces you have, you can't win a War if the Opposition
opts for the doughty guerrilla warfare.
You can't subjugate such resistance, and try for peace building, without bringing the contextual parties on the table for power-sharing talks.
2) No super power in the History has been made as overstretched as the USA has been now.
Aug 15, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
हिदुओं में भी हर उत्सव वाला कार्य टाल दिया जाता है एक साल के लिए जब परिवार में कोई मृत्यु होती है।
यहाँ,
भारत में, पिछले एक साल में लाखों लोग कोरोना के कहर में खेत गए (आज भी हर दिन, सरकारी आँकड़ों में, करीबन, रोज़ 500 मौतें हो रही हैं),
हज़ारों बच्चे अनाथ हो गए,
लोगों की नौकरियाँ/रोज़गार जाते रहे,
हज़ारों किसान सर्दी-धूप-बरसात में अपनी मांगों के लिए अब भी लड़ रहे हैं,
कभी कोई 'कानपुर' होता है, तो - कभी 'दिल्ली',
सामाजिक वैमनस्य और धार्मिक कट्टरता इतना पैर पसार चुकी है कि शायद ही किसी और देश में इतना हो,
लोकतंत्र एक मज़ाक़ बन कर रह गया है
Aug 14, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Careers are being curtailed,
lives are being extinguished,
freedom is being killed.
The fervent cries of helplessness are coming out of Afghanistan
and,
the World is standing like a silent spectator.
It seems that the Spanish Civil War
happened in just another age in an another world
where
even the ordinary citizens of other countries, voluntarily, fought against oppression,
for a just cause.
It seems that the Spanish Civil War