Deepawali, also known as Diwali, is perhaps the greatest export of India, the entire world celebrates it for what it represents. This Deepawali day has come at a time when the human world is virtually torn apart with present and impending military and trade wars, social and socio-political distrust, and extreme political polarities. This […]
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The Dignified Women of Kashmir
Kashmir has a unique cultural and spiritual history that spans over several millennia, long before Jesus Christ. Traditionally, in Kashmir, a man and a woman would be considered as equal in the matrimonial partnership. Their marriage would be celebrated as a sacred union of two equals, with no one superior […]
India must find its own way
India proudly celebrated its 79th Independence Day on 15 August 2025. It is a sovereign nation, but its strength, pride and sovereignty are being tested by the current alarming global events and the script writers of evil designs. As it experiences significant geopolitical pulls and pushes, both from within and […]
Kashmir, O Kashmir
Kashmir, the universally acclaimed Heaven on Earth, continues to bleed! There has been no time in its history, especially, since the Indian subcontinent was partitioned in 1947, by the British, when the Heaven on Earth did not bleed. It may even pay the ultimate price of total obliteration from the […]
The Tariff War – Possible Opportunities for Australia and India
The US administration recently announced a wide range of tariffs on the imports from the rest of the world, unbelievably, including its own traditional allies and western partners. To mark its strategic move, it celebrated 2 April 2025 as the Liberation Day, despite confidence in the global trading market suddenly […]
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS AND MUCH MORE
I wish all readers a safe and happy Christmas Day today, followed by a peaceful, joyful, and prosperous new year ahead! May the spirit of Christmas fill us all around the world with much-needed love, empathy and compassion for one another, and care for our fellow human beings in dire […]
Saving a major democracy
Some people ask why I don’t write much about Australian politics but instead focus on issues elsewhere in the world, especially in India. To them, I would like to clarify that I write as an author, and not as a politician, and focus proactively on the preservation of global democracy. […]
Circular regression of human civilisation?
In the first half of the 20th Century, humans from across political and race polarities – leftists and rightists, democrats and communists, blacks and whites, Asians and Westerners – came together and fought two world wars against tyrannical dictators from Fascist and Nazi ideologies. In World War I, we lost […]
Story of a promising young nation
This essay presents an interesting case of a nation called India, a young country of 1.43 billion humans, nearly one-fifth of the humanity, and growing. The nation started enjoying democracy only after the British left the subcontinent in August 1947 and when the nation gave itself a constitution on 26 […]
State of Indian Democracy
World is keenly watching India’s current General Election – being held in seven phases, over a period of six weeks – and speculating on the results of the election, due to be announced on 4 June 2024. History has never before seen nearly a billion eligible voters going to the […]
