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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 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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In a supposed democracy, when an emerging pattern reveals an elected populist regime perniciously trying to dismantle an established federal structure, using all imaginable devious and surreptitious means and mechanisms, to centralize the power in the hands of an elected dictator, a couple of commonsensical deductions emerge: (a) The regime […]

It is time to pause and introspect, as a slippery road lies ahead, potentially spiraling downward. We have been fed religious political opium for long and lured into a make-believe world and primed to fight Don Quixote’s windmills. We must detoxify and purge ourselves of xenophobia and religious intolerances; keep […]

Kashmiris – past, present and emerging – have paid a heavy price for geographical location of their Maej Kasheer (Mother Kashmir). Since March 1846, Kashmir had been a part of an erstwhile princely State of Jammu and Kashmir. Ladakh too was a part of the State. Despite its uniquely rich […]