What holds back India from belligerent retaliation is the irresolvable question of legitimacy of its sovereignty over Kashmir in the eyes of the world. It gets raked up all the time when either a conflagration like Kargil or a tragedy like Pahalgam happens. How to permanently establish such legitimacy? I’m going to suggest here aContinue reading “The Pahalgam Tragedy”
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Brace yourself for Arundhati Roy winning the Nobel Prize for Peace sometime 2024-29
Please read this and ponder over ⬇️ https://www.telegraphindia.com/amp/world/united-nations-human-rights-office-urges-indian-authorities-to-drop-cases-against-author-arundhati-roy-over-comments-on-kashmir/cid/2029993 This lady is a fine writer in English, of course, but then we know that her literary output — apart from a single much feted debut novel published 30 years ago — has been very near zero. Her life path thereafter has taken her only on theContinue reading “Brace yourself for Arundhati Roy winning the Nobel Prize for Peace sometime 2024-29”
Go find a “Smarter Way” to deal with Terrorism
I watched the below video on X and that’s why I titled this blog of mine with the words , “O Ye Israel, find a Smarter Way to Deal with Terrorists” Attacking innocent Jews on the street is “spread of poison” and bombing the life and daylights out of innocent Palestinians in Gaza city isContinue reading “Go find a “Smarter Way” to deal with Terrorism “
At last India now has a diplomat with a whiplash tongue that’s more than 56 inches long !
No punches pulled … India’s EAM and diplomat S. Jaishankar puts an Austrian TV anchor in his place … with devastating zingers ! Never before in history have I heard an Indian Foreign Minister speak so candidly and authoritatively in a foreign forum… Usually they would hum and haw and mumble vaguely and duck loadedContinue reading “At last India now has a diplomat with a whiplash tongue that’s more than 56 inches long !”
My own little private “Ukraine War diary” entry: 12 March 2022 …
Putin agrees to send ‘volunteers’ to UkraineRussian President Vladimir Putin agreed to invite volunteers to participate in Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine.“If you see that there are people who want on a voluntary basis, especially not for money, to come and help people living in the Donbas – well, you need to meet themContinue reading “My own little private “Ukraine War diary” entry: 12 March 2022 …”
The Dogs of War that will bring back the Era of the Cold War
Igor Afanasiev, a native of Kyiv in Ukraine, was hired in 2011 as Business Development Manager of a large, multinational investment company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in which I was then serving as its Chief Financial Officer. Igor and I worked as colleagues during the ensuing eight years when we became good friends too. BesidesContinue reading “The Dogs of War that will bring back the Era of the Cold War”
The Ukraine War is unacceptable to the “international community” since it is a racist exception
https://indica.medium.com/when-war-happens-to-white-people-5612a880ce52 Indi.ca 25 Feb 2022 In truth, what happened to Ukraine is not even the worst war going on right now, if you can admit colored people their humanity. On the same day the Ukraine was attacked, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen were also bombed, the latter 37 times. On the same day, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran,Continue reading “The Ukraine War is unacceptable to the “international community” since it is a racist exception”
MY BLOGPOST DID GET IT RIGHT ABOUT “ROU”… RUSSIA OCCUPIED UKRAINE becoming the European “PoK” (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir”
The UN must brace itself for the possible scripting of RoU (Russia-Occupied-Ukraine) much in the way it created PoK (Pakistan-Occupied/Kashmir) and the Israeli West Bank
The above Chart is a real beauty! It points to a diplomatic way out of the messy negotiations going on now between the USA and Russia over Ukraine … in favour of the Western powers. The chart reveals that half of America is fine with imposing sanctions on Russia but not all-out War over Ukraine.Continue reading “The UN must brace itself for the possible scripting of RoU (Russia-Occupied-Ukraine) much in the way it created PoK (Pakistan-Occupied/Kashmir) and the Israeli West Bank”
BETWEEN THE DEPLETING OZONE LAYER UP IN THE SKIES AND A BURGEONING DUMP OF PLASTICS DOWN HERE ON EARTH, MANKIND IS TRULY CAUGHT BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA?
Here is a UN Report just out: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/10/1103692 Currently, plastic accounts for 85 per cent of all marine litter. By 2040, it will nearly triple, adding 23-37 million metric tons of waste into the ocean per year. This means about 50kg of plastic per meter of coastline. Because of this, all marine life, from planktonContinue reading “BETWEEN THE DEPLETING OZONE LAYER UP IN THE SKIES AND A BURGEONING DUMP OF PLASTICS DOWN HERE ON EARTH, MANKIND IS TRULY CAUGHT BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA?”