Rockets Agile Practices and Risks
shashiWoke up today to the news of the SpaceX rocket getting destroyed in a pre-launch fire. SpaceX has made commendable progress in establishing commercial space launches after NASA let go of…
The Great Arc
In history, regimes can't be classified in binary. Their activities, actions and achievements have to be summed contextually. Even then, without accounting for multiple perspectives, judging a regime as good…
The day when I practised “Mentalism”
Probably the earliest instance of telepathy :-p The other day I was watching a show on mentalism on National Geographic. Though sceptical about such shows most of which seem to…
Solstice at Panipat
Reading the book "Solstice at Panipat" made me reflect upon the fact about how history takes a bird's eye view of one's lifetime. And how most of how details of…