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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 […]

Those who believe India is turning into a dictatorship may be wrong, as India may actually be transitioning into a modern monarchy. An eye-raising religious ritual for the installation of a specter in the new parliament building on its inauguration earlier in the year, illustrates India’s conscious return to its […]

In 1947, India was left dirt poor and divided by the British. By 2014, India emerged as a stable country, a force to reckon with – politically, economically, and militarily – and a technically progressive nation, and not a banana republic. Thanks to the fortitude of its founding leaders, who […]

Thugland wasn’t always known by that name, it had been a crucible of culture, knowledge, valour and benevolence in its glorious history. It was home to the noble and the learned. Previously known as Godland, it was defined by its grandeur, yet it had been modest. As Godland, it had […]

King Midas – like King Sisyphus – was condemned to exist till eternity. Burdened with the curse, he constantly suffered from the loss of every person he knew – his partners, friends, children, subjects and slaves. Inevitably, a time came when he fell in love with just himself, the only […]