Staff to your Organization Payroll will get payments on the December twenty-eight. The fresh Internal revenue service told you its decision to deliver the new waiver flow from to your department that have frozen later fee reminders within the Febr...
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Freedom from speech
It is not usual to weave an editorial web around a single author who does not even have the 'merit' of being ancient. Greg Lukianoff's first book, 'Unlearning liberty: Campus censorship and end of American debate' appeared only in 2012. His latest...
Continue readingPutin’s Myriad Goals to Nowhere
Starting a war is serious business; conventional wisdom’s 3:1 rule says that the attacker needs three times the strength required for defence. Attacking another country requires an assessment of the opponent’s allies and sustainability...
Continue readingThe Known Unknown: The Power of Awareness of Ignorance
Donald Rumsfeld, the then US Secretary of Defence had famously said during a 2002 press briefing, "... there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we...
Continue readingDictatorships, Patriarchy and Women's Rights
The Istanbul Convention does not apply to Istanbul, nor does it apply to any other part of Turkey. In 2021, Tayyip Erdoğan, one of the several institutionalised dictators in the world, decreed its annulment in Turkey. Ironically, it was opened for...
Continue readingPolice Interrogation and the Right to Remain Silent
On March 1, 2023, while deciding criminal appeals relating to some Chhattisgarh bureaucrats, the Supreme Court made the following observations:
"We quite appreciate that there could be cases of innocent public servants being entangled in i...
Continue readingThe Summit of Alternative Democracies
Since the decadent democracies were not taking seriously China's claim of being a democracy, Xi Jinping decided to hold a summit meeting for heads of states of real democracies. The beautiful Island paradise of Hainan was the obvious venue for thi...
Continue readingChildren's Words are Birds; Let Them Fly
The image on this post is doing the rounds on WhatsApp. I thought it was time to come out on the side of the student and put the ignoramus teacher on the well-deserved backbench:
Oscar Wilde had said famously, "In examinations, the foolish...
Continue readingChina: Humour and Hegemony
Chinese arrogance may prompt many jokes in the West but for millennia, jokes were no laughing matter in that country that suffered from an ailment described as “moral pomposity”. Sitting in the Heavenly Kingdom and surrounded by concen...
Continue readingThe Joke of Chinese Humour is on China
China is a big country and as with anything big with jaws and claws, one must be careful about its reaction to provocations. This week Taiwan was not so careful while welcoming Nancy Pelosi and ended up making China very angry. The reprisal was se...
Continue readingUkraine:Serious Escalation on the Horizon
There are darker clouds of war on the horizon. The escalation is likely to be qualitatively different from the events so far. Russia has mercilessly pounded the entire territory of Ukraine with no respect for civilian residential areas and with a...
Continue readingChina pays a ‘crazy’ cost for following Xi’s thoughts
There are instances in India of family members declaring someone as mentally ill and getting him locked up in a mental facility to grab his share in the family property. The Chinese Communist Party has very frequently used this stratagem against d...
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