Confronted with such a pattern, it is unsurprising that two great scriptures of the world — one recent in history, and the other very ancient — the Bible and the Bhagavad Gītā speak not in the language of dispassionate geopolitics, but in the idiom of divine justice and cosmic rectification. It is cruel irony, perhaps,Continue reading “The Arc of a Brave New 22nd Century World… the Bhagavad Gītā, and the Bible – Part 3 (CONCLUDED)”
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The Moving Arc and the “One‑Tenthers” – Part 2 of 3
If the arc can be read as a product of resources and strategic geography, it can also be read as a mirror of power asymmetry. Throughout most of human history, the making of the arc’s fate has been reserved for what I call the “One‑Tenthers”—the small minority of great‑power states, imperial elites, and ruling‑class networksContinue reading “The Moving Arc and the “One‑Tenthers” – Part 2 of 3”
The Arc of Human Sorrow – Part 1 of 3
I. The Arc of Human Sorrow in the World If one were to trace, on a single map, the heaviest concentration of war, pillage, and displacement across human history, the line would run from Libya through Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Persia—an arc that has, for millennia, been less a geographical accident than a structuralContinue reading “The Arc of Human Sorrow – Part 1 of 3”
The end of the Nehruvium and the Anglicised-Hindu Class (Part-2 of 3)
Post-1947, it was the Anglicised-Hindu Class that became the chosen people upon whom all the dreams and hopes of Jawaharlal Nehru for a “modern India” rested. Nirad C. Chaudhury described them — “….as a separate ethnic entity with its own collective psychology. It is constituted by the Hindus of the Anglicized upper middle-class, and isContinue reading “The end of the Nehruvium and the Anglicised-Hindu Class (Part-2 of 3)”
Blame this on Wokeism and Consumerism in the USA !
“So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creatureContinue reading “Blame this on Wokeism and Consumerism in the USA !”
Bible classes for Ms. Aruna Roy
Aruna Roy writes: Civil society is not the enemy: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/ajit-doval-nsa-fourth-generation-warfare-constitution-7628080/?utm_source=newzmate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=opinion&pnespid=Ba925kBUtX4dnU.Ps4DBGx5Qo0Ngn7Jyux4XA6RaLZPKuseb2zjVOGtZwVhKcEILv7CqHrt7 Aruna Roy deserves credit for giving Doval … and indeed to all of us … a refresher crash course through the above newspaper column on the Constitutional duties and responsibility of civil servants …. But then she conveniently forgets that so-called social activists like herContinue reading “Bible classes for Ms. Aruna Roy”