The Presidential Pardon Joe Biden gave his son and the Doctrine of “Saranagathi” in Vedantic Theology

Reminds me of how in the Mahabharata, King Dhritarashtra was ready to grant pardon to his beloved son Duryodhana for every misdeed of his. A father’s love for a son is blind … more blind than the mother’s even… and Queen Gandhari seems to have exemplified that truth! My knowledge of law is very limitedContinue reading “The Presidential Pardon Joe Biden gave his son and the Doctrine of “Saranagathi” in Vedantic Theology”

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”

What has AMERICA really gained from, or hope to gain, from the Ukraine War ? Does anyone in the world really know ?

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/07/ukraine_an_expendable_country_may_soon_run_out_of_expendables.html Pretty grim and sad reading indeed is the above very well-informed analysis on the current status of the Ukraine war. If has been forwarded to me by very good friend and ex-colleague, Mr. Igor Afansiev, a Ukrainian national himself, who had been forced to leave last year his native city of Kiev, along withContinue reading “What has AMERICA really gained from, or hope to gain, from the Ukraine War ? Does anyone in the world really know ?”

The “Biden-Modi Agreement”: Over-ambitious equestrian acrobatics?

Prime Minister Modi is in the USA today ! And over the next few days INDIA and USA are expected to sign landmark long-term agreements which will commit the latter to unprecedented defence and trade ties favouring the former. India is said to be on the cusp of a so-called “heralding of a totally newContinue reading “The “Biden-Modi Agreement”: Over-ambitious equestrian acrobatics?”

“The Economist” (UK) on America’s new best friend, INDIA

Here’s my own take on this editorial published in the latest issue of of The Economist UK : (please scroll right down to read the reproduced piece) 1. The title should have been rephrased as “ America’s new best fair-weather friend”. 2. India is certainly more democratic and far less liberal than the West. Why?Continue reading ““The Economist” (UK) on America’s new best friend, INDIA”

Joe Biden is the Will Smith of international diplomacy

17 March 2021 : Biden calls Putin a “killer”; 17 March 2022: Biden calls Putin a “war criminal” ; 18 March 2022: Biden abuses Putin as “murderous dictator” and “pure thug”; 26 March 2022: Biden calls Putin a “butcher”. How did Putin respond? He didn’t. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov speaking on his boss’s behalfContinue reading “Joe Biden is the Will Smith of international diplomacy”