The essay below is a rollicking, bawdy read. It’s full of bar-room profanity typically of the American kind. Such a profusion of choicest four-letter expletives in what purports to be a dubious Op-Ed piece made even me blush a little … and I’m no prude when it comes to occasionally using unparliamentary “pardon myContinue reading “A rare piece of irreverent yet so refreshingly truthful journalism”
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Take a back-seat “vishwabandhu” and start worrying more about “prativeshi bandhu”
From The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/world/asia/sri-lanka-election-results.html?smid=em-share Leftist Leader Elected President as Sri Lanka Rejects the Old Order. Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s strong showing reveals voter weariness with leadership that has led to a national economic crisis and crushing hardship for many people. ************* India now has new regimes ruling its immediate neighbourhood with whom it sharesContinue reading “Take a back-seat “vishwabandhu” and start worrying more about “prativeshi bandhu””
How long will India keep wiggling ?
Bangladesh unrest: Former PM Sheikh Hasina alleges US plot to oust her for refusing Island handoverhttp://dhunt.in/W2kvs It’s about time that India’s foreign policy recognises that the USA is exactly what Henry Kissinger once said his country was : “It’s dangerous to be an enemy of America . But to be a friend of America canContinue reading “How long will India keep wiggling ?”
The misrule of Democracy maketh Man intolerant
Take a good look at the Infograph above. 11 out of 26 countries in the list have a satisfaction score of 50% or above. So, democracy after all is not manna from heaven. Democracy in Asia seems to work better than rest of the world … 5 out of 8 countries have satisfaction score ofContinue reading “The misrule of Democracy maketh Man intolerant”
Why India transferred its Gold reserves kept in UK Central Bank vaults since 1991 back to its domestic vaults?
To think of a possible and simple explanation for the question, you have to first quickly read this article of the famous American economist, Paul Krugman: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/remember-u-doesn-t-pay-204354371.htmlhttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/remember-u-doesn-t-pay-204354371.html ….. “Most historical examples of debt crises took place in countries that borrowed in another country’s currency”… says Paul Krugman. What a diabolically ingenious way indeed to defendContinue reading “Why India transferred its Gold reserves kept in UK Central Bank vaults since 1991 back to its domestic vaults?”
“The People Vs Democracy”: In the court of the Hon’ble Sir Winston Churchill
The latest Pew Research Survey, summarised in columns of The Hindu today dt. 4 March 2024, reports that more than a third of the world in terms of number of nations — and much more than half in terms of population size— has already lost faith in Democracy as a system of governance. Zoom inContinue reading ““The People Vs Democracy”: In the court of the Hon’ble Sir Winston Churchill”
A Theatre of the Absurd in the world of Western Diplomacy
Two years into the War that has set Ukraine aflame and is nearly destroying the country, America and the EU — so-called NATO allies — now seem to be dancing around each other in a macabre embrace of death. Last week President Macron embarrassed President Biden by dropping a diplomatic grenade at a EU summitContinue reading “A Theatre of the Absurd in the world of Western Diplomacy”
A symptom of America’s creeping crisis of confidence
This colour coded map of America above that appears in the latest UK Economist magazine is so intriguing. The trend of home-ownership Vs home renting it tracks is truly mind-boggling. Such a sea-change in the complexion of the housing-industry in America in a matter of just 3 short years ?!! What happened? What are theContinue reading “A symptom of America’s creeping crisis of confidence”
WHY INDIA’s MIDDLE-EAST FOREIGN POLICY SEEMS TO BE BADLY PICKLED TODAY?
The answer to the question, in my humble layman view is … Because India’s relations with Palestine are emotional and towards Israel, they are transactional. Palestine reminds INDIA so much of the pain and the horrors of her own 1947 Partition when millions of people were displaced and rendered homeless and destitute. So India cannotContinue reading “WHY INDIA’s MIDDLE-EAST FOREIGN POLICY SEEMS TO BE BADLY PICKLED TODAY?”
The looming propaganda offensive against Euro-Arab History
Watch this 5-minute video-clip below to get a quick summary of one version of the history of the Palestine-Israel conflict … post the horrific October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas in Palestine. It is the Israeli sanitised version. For someone who has no depth of knowledge of History, this video-clip truly serves itsContinue reading “The looming propaganda offensive against Euro-Arab History”