Author: Vincent Augustine D'Souza

“Where did you want to reach in such a hurry? Whether you wanted to become chief minister at 43 and prime minister at 45 by joining BJP?” That was Margaret Alva’s question to Sachin Pilot. Why not? Rajiv Gandhi became PM at 40. Any MP can become PM. Age for becoming MP is 25. One…

India has banned 59 apps with Chinese connection. Ravi Shankar Prasad called it Digital Strike. He said it was for the safety of the country and to safeguard people’s digital data. It seems surgical strike against China is not possible and digital strike was the next best thing. USA is against Chinese apps. After the…

Battle of Galwan has come as a rude awakening for people of India. On 16/6/2020 afternoon came reports that one Colonel and two jawans had died in skirmishes with Chinese on the night of 15-16. At night came the news that 20 are dead. Line of Actual Control stand-off has been going on for sometime….

Tamil Nadu government has ordered name changes of 1,018 places. Most of them are adding a, i, k, th to existing names or substituing u with oo. Change of names continues in India ever since Independence. Change of names was mainly of British Era names. Now names prior to British Era like that of Allahabad…

It is Lockdown 4 of central government. State governments have their own lockdowns. People are caught in the middle. Narendra Modi announced lockdown for 21 days. First extension was for 19 days, second for 14 days, third for 14 days which is Lockdown 4 and ends on 31/5/2020. Maharashtra had its lockdown before that of…

RBI should have all its gold in India. The Indian Express of 11/5/2020 has reported that total holdings of the yellow metal at 653.01 tonnes, RBI gold reserves up 40.4 tonnes in 2019-20, more than half of total holdings held overseas. Of these 360.71 tonnes was in Bank of England and Bank for International Settlements….

There have been many side effects of Corona; some good, some bad. Lockdowns were response to Corona. Central government imposed lockdown on the whole country with effect from 25/3/2020 for 21 days and later extended it by 19 days. State governments have imposed lockdowns which started before central lockdown. Pollution is down. Air is clean….

Sonia Gandhi’s suggestion to ban advertisements to media for two years to save money to fight Corona virus has evoked hostile reaction from journalists. PM Narendra Modi wanted suggestions from leaders of political parties to fight Corona virus. Sonia Gandhi had made five suggestions. They were: 1) Proportionate reduction in the expenditure budget of the…

Justice for Jyoti Singh was delivered on 20/3/2020 to a large extent as four rapists and murderers were hanged at Tihar Jail. It was not full because one criminal escaped justice and was not hanged on the ground that he was juvenile at the time of crime. It took seven years, three months and four…

There is mass hysteria and panic about Corona Virus also known as China Virus, Chinese Plague, Chinese Flu, Wuhan Virus and Covid 19. Countries are under lockdown. Churches, schools, stadia, theatres and other places are shut. Flights and visas are cancelled. It is Apocalypse Now. People die of various diseases. There are epidemics and pandemics…