* Another week goes by and the optics keep getting worse and worse for Donald Trump.  More and more women are coming out of the woodwork.  As it turns out, Mr. Trump was quite a randy fellow back in the days.  I think the third and final debate between him and Clinton is just a formality.  The writing is on the wall, and I also think that he knows that there is a sense of inevitability about him losing this election in a landslide.

* In 1975 when the then prime minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of emergency in the country, she wanted a ''committed bureaucracy and judiciary'' and she duly got it.  And we all know how things have panned out since then.  In 2016 the present Union Government without overtly saying so, expects ''committed journalists'', whatever that means!  During the emergency, press was asked to bend, but it was (with few exceptions) willing to crawl.  In today's technological age of visual media, even though we don't have a national emergency, the news channels are perfectly happy to crawl and be more loyal than the King.

* Meanwhile, I've been watching season 4 of 'Masters of Sex'.  This season is even better than the previous ones.  In terms of tonality and aesthetics the show borrows quite a lot from ‘Mad Men’.