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May 9, 2020So, Elon Musk tweeted that he and his partner Grimes, are going to name their child (her first, and his fifth) X Æ A-12 Musk The best comment I saw on that Reminded me, in spirit, of this
Post Lockdown: Moving towards a $5 Trillion Economy
May 3, 2020Yesterday, on my twitter TL, was a man lamenting about his life. He is a senior executive in some company, has two kids, and mentioned his wife doesn’t work. I am not putting up a screenshot or linking to that thread, because…
Book Review: Bhima the Lone Warrior
April 18, 2020Bhima: The Lone Warrior, by MT Vasudevan Nair is a retelling of the Mahabharata from Bhima’s point of view. Many years ago, when social media was a distant glint in a very far away horizon, there used to be a network of…
COVID 19 – Silly Policy Decisions 1
April 13, 2020I saw this, and saw red. And, then i decided to document these and other silly decisions that i come across. So you and I, who are social distancing, and have to stay indoors as far as possible – have to make…
Review: Star Trek Picard
April 13, 2020Start Trek Picard on Amazon Prime, is a move away from the earlier cheery Pollyanna takes of the future put forward by the Star Trek universe. The world in Star Trek Picard is definitely more dystopian than the ones we have seen…
CoronaVirus and the Anatomy of Entitlement
March 29, 2020Coronavirus, more specifically Covid 19, has cut a swathe through the world, infecting over half a million people, and being the cause of death of over 30,000 people – mostly senior citizens. The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus tracker is one of the scariest…
COVID 19: After the virus, a wake up call to invest in Primary Health Care
March 29, 2020This was written on the 8th of March. After the death of 463 patients, the Government of Italy has announced a lockdown for the country, hoping it would stem the rise of coronavirus cases. There are cancelled weddings, funerals, and public gatherings….
As Delhi Burns ….
March 29, 2020This appeared in CNBC-TV18 on the 27th of February The plumes of black smoke that you see on your timeline, or on WhatsApp forwards, or on news channels is not from some remote part of the country or the world. It is…
The Cost of COVID 19 – the CoronaVirus
March 29, 2020This appeared in CNBC TV18 on the 20th of February 2019 The latest public health scare to hit the world is the COVID 19 – Corona Virus. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there were over 73,000 reported cases of COVID…
The High Cost of Ill Health
March 29, 2020This appeared in CNBC TV18 on the 13th of February With the Coronavirus claiming over a 1000 lives, the spotlight of the world is on communicable diseases and preventing their outbreak. A few years earlier, the world’s attention was on Ebola, which…