Oh, dry as dust really.

 No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.Ever. That's just how most of us have been engineered and count yourself in this lot because no matter how much you deny, you must have starred in atleast one of the mentioned motion pictures.People discussing trivia at the crossroads and armchair intellectuals slapping facts ratified by the cursery readings of the elite newspapers on the faces of their nonchalant family members, alike. All it takes to create a good movie or start a war is an us and a them . Let's put the facts first and then view them through the  prisms of truth or chicanery .Last week , two state  governments came out with their population policies for the ensuing decade- Assam and Uttar Pradesh. We have had a National Population Policy for over half a century and it has paid great dividends with 24 out of 29 states having achieved total fertility rate (TFR) of 2.1 which is considered the replacement level (no further population growth). The remainin...

 Prologue- All ye friends reading it, just in case you're wondering, it's my way of glorifying the bond we share. Please don't file a defamation suit against me. Friendship.A sweet 10-letter word , easy to buy and well easier to sell.A word that'll spam your inboxes and festoon your Instagram stories a couple of weeks from now in August if I'm not mistaken. The capital market may be incurring losses but this sprawling friendship market almost always has a trade surplus.GFP has witnessed a growth like never before.Maybe just on the balance sheet but nevertheless facts remain unchanged. Not because the value of the commodity increased but maybe just maybe because of the base effect. As I sit and take pleasure in doing what I'm doing, I see yet another example.  On the left ,you see 2 red-whiskered bulbuls and on the right 4 worm-eaters( or so I call them given that I'm not using binoculars and my glasses aren't quite pleased with me [not to mention that t...