18 August 2021 The way many American veterans are arguing about the Biden Administration, it would seem that they were arguing for continued presence in perpetuity of the US mission to keep Afghanistan from the Taliban. What few strategic analysts can now grasp in clarity, amidst the chaotic scenes from Kabul is how orderly the […]
Category: Human Interest
15 August 2021 In the 75 years of her existence as a modern Western Democracy, India has done creditably for herself, as a force for stability not just within, but without. One cannot imagine the outcome in East Pakistan, in Sri Lanka, Nepal or Maldives in any manner different than how it panned out after […]
13 August 2021 There was a time, when apparently, the first instance of outsourcing was when the White Man came to tame the wilderness and the wild, cultivate culture amongst those who remained till then beyond the pale of culture, in lands that were peopled by what now modern correctness terms as ‘First Nations’. When […]
11 August 2021 When President Trump’s account was suspended by Twitter, many lustily cheered, for the excesses of a false narrative that had such follower-ship needed taking down was the logic. Many argued, however that Twitter had no ombudsman, there was no natural justice in how the measure was undertaken, including a clearly one sided […]
20 July 2021 A mythical winged steed that was per legend born from the union of Poseidon a Varuna equivalent who was also the God of Horses, and a Gorgon Medusa, one of three such hideous creatures that had serpents for strands of hair, who were winged females human like. So if we don’t delve […]
19 July 2021 What must convince the ‘folk’ that climate change is catastrophic, than a few gallons of rain that wash away their very life time’s efforts to build a ‘nest’? In Germany and Belgium, reeling from ‘unprecedented’ deluge in 48 hours, valleys were washed away, well laid towns were converted into mud slats, intersecting […]
Remembering Danish Siddiqui 17 July 2021 What the Taliban did not know, was the backlash of killing a journalist? That as war correspondents and photographers of conflict areas and conflicting narratives, did Danish Siddiqui not know how much he was putting himself to risk? Deep within the various tributes that are now flooding Twitter about […]
13 July 2021 Prior to the Bismarck concept of nationhood, where culture and language populated ideally by a mono-ethnic people demarcated the nation state, it was rather common to see multi ethnic and multicultural in fact multi linguistic commons as a nationhood. Even if one takes the narrowest example of the British Isles as a […]
8 July 2021 A dystopian world is not difficult to conjure for the future, this being imagination and inspiration in parts, one that is actually brought about by lack of both in the present. Yet, the past year has been a series of such missteps and calculative fuss, an obsession with numbers and headlines, with […]
7 July 2021 It would seem like a world gone awry and it has happened too frequently that now science appears sagacious, forewarning us homo sapiens of the coming apocalypse that is #ClimateChallenge. We had Canada a subArctic country reporting temperatures that would made ‘Madna’ of Mad Na fame from English, August, a scintillating novel […]
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