Durdle Door, Dorset

Durdle Door, Dorset

Bottleneck is always at top of the bottle

Bottleneck is always at top of the bottle

Suppressio Veri, Suggestio Falsi

The suppression of the truth is the suggestion of a falsehood.

Rashomon Effect

Along with Seven Samurai, Rashomon features among the best movies of the Japanese Movie director Akira Kurosawa. The movie is a 1950 Period Drama known for a style of narration where a single event is recounted in contradictory versions, much like the Godhra (train burning)/ post Godhra incidents, each providing an alternate version of the Truth, and mostly self serving.

On a Foggy Morn - Basingstoke

The T Statemanship

The hallmark of a good statesmanship is inclusive governance. If the rule of over 50 years in the State of Andhra Pradesh was anything but inclusive governance, which probably is the reason a section of people felt “allegedly” marginalized, and thereafter successfully revolted for a separate state, neither is the present government at the centre close to unprejudiced conduct, let alone good statesmanship. The reasons should be fair too obvious if one goes through the developments of the past couple of days.


Here you have a Centre that takes a decision affecting lives, directly or indirectly, of millions living out of T state and yet is callous in the manner of announcing the decision. There is not even an attempt to speak to the aggrieved parties. The central government’s superpower authority driving from backseat, has the gumption to decide in a one sided manner, and yet care less to the fallout of the decision or have a proper dialogue with the affected. And all this was supposed to be an elaborate consultative process involving opinions of all the stakeholders!