Category: Blogs

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 […]

Against all odds, after being nearly written off after losing its first two marches of the tournament, Team Australia proved its mettle yet again and won the ICC 2023 World Cup on Sunday, 19 November 2023, at Ahmedabad (India), for a record sixth time. Smart cricketing brains of Team Australia […]

It has been more than four weeks since the current Middle East conflict began. More than a million Palestinians have become homeless, nearly ten thousand perished, including more than four thousand children, and millions are existing without hope. Gaza has become a graveyard. Major powers have added fuel to the […]

Sensitive but pertinent questions can’t stop being raised about an ‘unbelievable’ attack by Hamas on a practically impregnable State of Israel on 7 October 2023, and the timing thereof. Undoubtedly, Hamas’ gruesome killings of innocent Israeli civilians within the Israeli controlled territory, after crossing a seemingly unassailable wall around a […]

The current Israel-Hamas conflict has the potential to blow up the world like a nuclear-powder keg. We can’t call it a war because Palestinians are stateless, without any army to defend them or their borders. The current siege of Gaza is perhaps amongst the last nails in its coffin. The […]

Truth is inconvenient to those who refuse to listen to their conscience. Despite knowing what is true and what is right, and what is not, e.g., in the current Middle East conflict, as well as in the conflicts in other parts of our strikingly polarised world, those of us who […]

A country is defined by its geographical boundaries and the people who live within those boundaries. The people are defined and represented by the kind of government they choose or elect at the ballot box. In a liberal democracy, a government is elected by people with a libertarian mindset, whereas […]

The largest democracies on Earth will decide if liberal democracy will survive in the face of growing authoritarianism, which seems to be infectious and spreading fast, and becoming more and more acceptable in the democratic world. Alarmingly, even the best of free and fair democracies consciously turn a blind eye […]