2019 elections are over – the result is out and the dust has settled. NDA won 352 seats, UPA led Congress was reduced to 91 with the grand old party barely crossing the half-century mark at 52. Interestingly, the BJP, which contested in 437 seats and won 303 of them, at a winning ratio of 70%. A near consensus cry of the opposition, to remove Modi failed miserably and many old stalwarts of Indian political scenario are seeing an existential crisis. The next five years will se

2016 US Presidential Elections were perhaps the most poorly disciplined elections in the modern history of the global economic superpower. Both the candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were accused of deploying targeted social media misinformation against each other. Rumors spread so far and wild, that a false story was created accusing Clinton of being involved in child trafficking by hiding children slaves in major pizza stores across the USA. The worst part was, mi

2 years back .. I heard people saying, “176000 crore ka ghotala (scam) was investigated and big names fell only because the Supreme Court of India intervened and pulled government on it”… it all started with the cancellation of 122 licenses in one go by a Supreme Court Judge … spiraling into a movement in the courtroom which sent Raja to jail and government to shelters, which also, fueled Anna’s movement on the street, which bred Kejriwal … Go back in the first para.. it all

In 2010, while visiting Australia, I came across a young boy beaming during a dinner meet. To my surprise, the youth introduced himself as Wyatt Ryan, a Member of Parliament and surprisingly aged at only 20 years! We must accept it, at this age most Indian youth are barely thinking of contesting college elections – unheralded by national policy issues. Then I heard of a Canadian MP, Dusseault, who became a member of their House of Commons, at the age of mere 19 years. Both Wy