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• Dravidian Stock. Surya vs Annadurai | T J S George
  22 May 2021, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  May 16, 2021
  Tejasvi Surya is one of the brightest man in public life today. He is young, educated and intelligent. He is a good speaker and can carry an audience with ease. He is a lawyer by profession and a trained Carnatic  (...)
• India’s Self-Inflicted Catasrophe | T J S George
  29 May 2021, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS When times are normal, the quality of leadership is not on trial; even an unimaginative head of a country, an organisation, a family can get by. The situation changes when a threat looms. Covid created such a situation in India  (...)
• Tickets With Photos of You-Know-Who | TJS George
  12 June 2021, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  It spoke a great deal about the Government’s concept of democracy when a journalist was charged with sedition for criticising the Government’s Covid policy. The Supreme Court had to tell the Government that it was the right of  (...)
• Communal Virus, All Day Everyday | Humra Quraishi
  12 June 2021, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS – 9 June, 2021
  Earlier this week a Muslim family was mowed down in the Canadian city of London in the Ontario province, by a hate-filled surcharged man. Four members of that family died, in that “premeditated†vehicle attack, with the  (...)
• The Condemned Remain Condemned | TJS George
  18 June 2021, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  How easily power goes to the head of politicians. When Delhi authorities were told to produce student leader Umar Khalid in Court, the police wanted to take him in handcuffs and leg chains. "Handcuffs in both hands from the backside"  (...)
• Bad Times | Humra Quraishi
  18 June 2021, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS
  16 June 2016 Humra Quraishi
  Last week as the veteran film star Dilip Kumar was hospitalised, I took out my notes on him and his wife, Saira Bano. I had met the couple just once and that too rather briefly in the lobby of a  (...)
• Business of Othering | Humra Quraishi
  16 July 2021, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS 14 July 2021
  With more and more communal characters on the prowl, can we declare communalism, or to put it along the desi strain ‘communal-pan’, as a full-fledged disease or disorder of the day! Yes, it ought to be termed and notified as  (...)
• Snooping / War over our past / Sahir | Humra Quraishi
  23 July 2021, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS 21 July 2021
  I have been focusing on the fact that the Coronavirus is just one aspect to our dismal existence. Today many more unsettling realities are intruding into our lives, making our everyday survival extremely, extremely  (...)