10 November 2024 The year may still be some weeks in concluding, however some clear red lines have come about, some not really originating in this year, but cemented by events that occurred within the calendar of 2024 while the rest were simply what we have witnessed only here. News Spin: Noise is not enough! […]
Category: Indology
9 July 2024 What should we call a movement that is reclaiming the human narrative and perspective from what has been largely a racist, religious, revisionist project spurred by imperialism and industrialisation of Western origin? How should we toast an author like William Dalrymple who is writing and talking about the fiction our modern history […]
Categories
Krsna- Art Of Possibles
7 September 2023 There are many ‘avatars’ within that one called Krishna Avatar, whose Janmashtami is celebrated today across India that is Bharat. Perhaps you could compare him with Aristotle to Alexander or even Marcus Aurelius by himself, yet, if there was such a thing as the unlikeliest hero of his age and whose message […]
Indian quest for global presence and relevance… 15 August 2023 India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. Hu Shih As India marks her Independence Day, there is much to be satisfied about as a country that emerged from the ashes of rabid […]
Categories
American Atma Indian Nirbharta
29 June 2023 The exchange of ridiculous levels of diatribe between Indian diaspora and politically aligned Indians must not distract from the larger evidence that India has been as an establishment pro America for decades now officially. Equally while the White House Press aides may have taken a position over the trolling or harassment that […]
24 June 2023 “The hype will always be far beyond the happening, much like hubris tends to curtail human adaptation, hype tends to extend beyond the ground reality…” Think of a partnership of two of the largest democracies in the World today, both Constitutional Democracies, with their respective colonial backgrounds of the British Empire in […]
Categories
The Indian Republic @74
26 January 2023 Few Indians of yester generation would have accepted the end of veneration of the clique that brought Indian transition from colonial dominion into what is today India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Even fewer would have guessed that India would undergo a transformation the way it has done, and the path it […]
23 January 2023 Any parable about brothers, about unity from Panchatantra to Jatakas to folk lore will always inform us about how an outside influence disturbs the equilibrium between siblings and promote rivalry. Yet, I am tempted to draw from ancient Tamil history where a poet, Perunchitiranar wrote about two brothers who ruled their kingdom, […]
11 October 2022 Aphorism of Terror: To sow an IED you need just a pinch of fertiliser and a fertile mind! For weeks we have been offered a narrative of Russia withdrawing from key cities and towns all along the front of the newly declared ‘annexed provinces’ that consisted of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk […]
10 May 2022 We need to examine the fast changing global scenario in aftermath of what is the status in Europe. The ingredients from the current conflict in Ukraine all are pointers to what is probably a long drawn affair, one which probably will leave Europe as she was before the renaissance and industrial revolution […]
indiarubberman.com 