Dear Friends, I’m delighted to announce that my compilation of posts featuring Param Vir Chakra awardees is finally complete.  The series started with a simple idea on a lazy summer afternoon of 2009 – and soon became a labour of love…I pored over numerous articles and web pages to do my research while writing this series…but not for a moment did I feel that the effort was in vain. Writing about these brave men – and their exploits – was perhaps the most inspiring and motivating thing I have done …

…it feels good to be loved!
I got an email yesterday from “Indian Top Blogs” that  || Satyameva Jayate || is now ranked amongst the Top 14 blogs in India (according to their ranking) in the category of “Platinum” blogs.  The list of 14 “Platinum” blogs include only four that can be loosely categorised as dealing with socio-political issues (Acorn, DCubed, Sepia Mutiny and yours truly). I wish there were more in this list.
This post is a BIG Thank You to ALL of you for being part of this journey …

How many of you read this “news” on 27th? I am guessing most of you missed it. I did too…until I was alerted to it by a friend on fb.
…The government ban on construction in Demchok, one of the disputed points in eastern Ladakh, is riling residents, who claim that the Chinese side is speedily ramping up its infrastructure and the Centre is just ‘watching’
..Even the Leh administration cannot go ahead with any construction activity here without getting it approved from the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of External Affairs.
“When …

Although I disagree with some of Paul Krugman‘s views on various matters, I found myself nodding in vigorous agreement while reading the concluding lines from his recent post. From “Not-A Does Not Imply B“, an excerpt (emphasis added):
Just a thought suggested by some economic discussions I’ve followed, including the comments on this blog: many people seem to have a hard time accepting that there are intermediate positions
This inability to make distinctions was really on display in response to my recent Argentina post. My point was that you really can’t use …

..or are some people more equal than others?* First, some excerpts from “Silence, or bluster, is not an answer” by MJ Akbar (emphasis added):
…We need to lay out the sequence if we want to assess the consequence. In the 12 June 2011 issue of The Sunday Guardian our political editor Kota Neelima broke a story that in one of the famous taped conversations A. Raja, the Telecom Minister, told lobbyist Niira Radia that “Chidambaram has taken a lot of money”. Her source was a CBI document, part of the written …