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Tajikistan Cedes Land to China - A Step Towards Af-Kash-Bet?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/15/2011 8:07 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Read this Article by Ambassador Blackwill about Pashtunistan & Afghanistan

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/8/2011 7:52 AM | Add Comment

Macro Viewpoints 2010 Awards for Financial Guests, Shows & Anchors

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/1/2011 6:47 AM | Add Comment

Not Cast In Caste - An Important Work from a Sindhu Foundation

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/18/2010 9:46 AM | Add Comment

If You Can Pronounce "Sonia", Why Do You Call Us "Hindu"?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/18/2010 6:46 AM | Add Comment

An Immortal Story For The Ages

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/18/2010 6:33 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (December 11 - December 17)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/18/2010 5:24 AM | Add Comment

The Largest Battle of the 18th Century - The Saga of Mastaani & The Opening for the British

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/11/2010 8:26 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (December 4 - December 10)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/11/2010 5:25 AM | Add Comment

Two Great Men of the Indo-Afghan Continuum

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/4/2010 8:04 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (November 27 - December 3)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/4/2010 6:47 AM | Add Comment

Charlie Rose & Tom Friedman - Read Maureen Dowd & Robert Kaplan on the Indo-Afghan Continuum

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 11/27/2010 9:55 AM | Add Comment

Who are the Real Talebani, Pakistanis or Pakhtuns? -The Legacies of Aurangzeb & Frontier Gandhi

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 11/27/2010 8:47 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (November 20 - November 26)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 11/27/2010 7:09 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Yardley of the New York Times - Who is the Man in this huge Portrait?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 11/13/2010 9:40 AM | Add Comment

New York Times vs. Washington Post - 5 - Dr. Bernanke, President Obama, Prime Minister Singh

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 11/13/2010 8:35 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (November 6 - November 12)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 11/13/2010 7:52 AM | Add Comment

Preoccupation with "Major Religions" - First CNBC & Now Washington Post

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 11/6/2010 7:45 AM | Add Comment

Burma - Where China & India Collide - From "Monsoon" by Robert Kaplan

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 11/6/2010 6:04 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (October 30 - November 5)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 11/6/2010 5:32 AM | Add Comment

Happy Deepavali & Happy New Year

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/30/2010 7:45 AM | Add Comment

China Expands Vertically, India Horizontally - Chapter I of "Monsoon" by Robert Kaplan

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/30/2010 7:33 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (October 23 - October 29)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/30/2010 6:27 AM | Add Comment

Jim Cramer, Erin Burnett, CNBC & General Electric - Their Contribution to Comparative Religion Discourse?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/26/2010 12:02 PM | Add Comment

Article by Gurucharan Das in the Wall Street Journal - Glimpse Into How Brainwashed "Elite" Indians Have Become?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/23/2010 7:14 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (October 16 - October 22)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/23/2010 6:04 AM | Add Comment

Lion-Heart or Lion-DoNothing - Which Attribute Would You Prefer?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/16/2010 8:57 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Helene Cooper's Article About USA-Pakistan - Emblematic of America's Blinders in Af-Pak?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/16/2010 7:39 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (October 9 - October 15)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/16/2010 6:08 AM | Add Comment

Bin-Ladenism in Religion & The Practice of Yoga

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/2/2010 1:34 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Who Need Greater Proficiency in English? Professors or Graduate Students?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 9/25/2010 7:09 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (September 19 - September 25)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 9/25/2010 5:17 AM | Add Comment

Harvard MBAs, MIT Ph.Ds, Stanford Professors, Corporate CEOs - Should They Be Forced to Prove Basic English Proficiency to Columbia, MIT & Princeton?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 9/18/2010 8:25 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (September 13 - September 18)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 9/18/2010 6:17 AM | Add Comment

Baltistan - Where the World Meets for the Next Geo-Crisis?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 9/11/2010 7:42 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (September 4 - September 10)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 9/11/2010 5:36 AM | Add Comment

Why Does a Nice Positive Article in the New York Times Carry a Deep Bias Against Indian Dharma?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 9/4/2010 6:34 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Is Intellectual Property Protection a Hidden Transfer of Wealth from Society To A Few?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/28/2010 8:03 AM | Add Comment

"Are you from the Pakistani army or the Sindh army?" - This Quote from the New York Times Shook Us

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/28/2010 7:32 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (August 22 - August 28)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/28/2010 5:31 AM | Add Comment

The 2010 Flood in Pakistan & The 1970 Cyclone in Pakistan - Similar Disasters, Similar Consequences?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/21/2010 8:10 AM | Add Comment

A GMization of the America - A Trite but Real Description of America's Structural Problem and Solution?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/21/2010 7:20 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (August 15 - August 21)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/21/2010 5:01 AM | Add Comment

A Blackberry addict discovers grassroots enterprise in India - A lovely story of Core India

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/14/2010 8:33 AM | Add Comment

The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Isn't that like a Reluctant Nazi?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/14/2010 7:37 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (August 8 - August 14)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/14/2010 6:10 AM | Add Comment

Peggy Noonan & Her Article - What Does It Say about the Wall Street Journal & Its India Edition?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/7/2010 7:17 AM | Add Comment

Did Sixty Minutes Engage in Deception in their Segment about Afghanistan?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/7/2010 6:45 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (August 2 - August 7)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/7/2010 5:10 AM | Add Comment

WSJ India Edition inside Wall Street Journal - An Indian MSNBC inside US Fox News?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/31/2010 8:57 AM | Add Comment

Maureen Dowd Gets It But David Ignatius Does Not?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/31/2010 7:56 AM | Add Comment

Run, Don't Walk to This Article by Bruce Riedel

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/31/2010 7:03 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week ( July 24 - July 30)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/31/2010 5:16 AM | Add Comment

Mathematical Logic, Ambassador Robert Blackwill & Macro Viewpoints on Afghanistan

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/24/2010 8:57 AM | Add Comment

New York Times vs. Washington Post - IV.B - Pakistan - Afghanistan

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/24/2010 7:43 AM | Add Comment

Could You Eat Meat Without Getting Fatter? - Read What A New European Study Says

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/24/2010 6:45 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (July 17 - July 23)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/24/2010 5:12 AM | Add Comment

Is America On The Wrong Side of History in Afghanistan The Way It Was In Vietnam?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/17/2010 6:33 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of The Week ( July 10 - July 16)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/17/2010 6:23 AM | Add Comment

Avatar the Film - Just A Happy Interlude Before The Inevitable Conquest of Pandora?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/10/2010 6:46 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (July 3 - July 9)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/10/2010 5:53 AM | Add Comment

Could You Eat Chocolate Without Feeling Guilty? A New Chinese Study Says You Should

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/3/2010 8:18 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (June 28 - July 2)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/3/2010 1:01 AM | Add Comment

The Long Term Ramifications of President Obama's Middle East Policy

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/12/2010 7:32 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (June 6 - June 12)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/12/2010 6:18 AM | Add Comment

Israel & Turkey - Our Views about the Flotilla & Its Ramifications

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/5/2010 7:52 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Would Chuck Daly Ask Us to Sell Long Maturity Treasuries?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/5/2010 7:04 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (May 29 - June 5)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/5/2010 6:04 AM | Add Comment

Emergence of Samskrut from 500 Years of Rejection in India to 1000 Years of Cosmopolitan Conquest - Could This Repeat Again?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/29/2010 7:57 AM | Add Comment

Another Flagrant Mischaracterization of Indian History by a Financial Times Writer? - Journalistic Negligence, Misconduct or Sheer Anti-Indian Prejudice?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/29/2010 7:04 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (May 22 - May 28)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/29/2010 6:03 AM | Add Comment

Why Is The Krishna Guha Case Important?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/22/2010 8:28 AM | Add Comment

Reader Responses & Our Views - Our Article about the Case of Two Financial Journalists

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/22/2010 7:50 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

You Are The Man, Mr. Adhir Kalyan - Kudos to Rules of Engagement & CBS

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/22/2010 7:07 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (May 15 - May 21)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/22/2010 6:24 AM | Add Comment

Are "Educated" Indians Different From Americans & Europeans? A Case of Two Financial Journalists

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/15/2010 7:26 AM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

Is Secretary Hillary Clinton Fed Up With President Obama's Af-Pak Policy?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/15/2010 6:51 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (May 8 - May 14)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/15/2010 6:03 AM | Add Comment

Impact on New York City & America of America's Withdrawal From Afghanistan

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/8/2010 7:19 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (May 1 - May 7)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/8/2010 6:21 AM | Add Comment

60 Minutes on Al-Qaeda in Pakistan & American Media on Goldman

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/1/2010 8:14 AM | Add Comment

Two Points of View about Afghanistan-India-Pakistan - Wall Street Journal vs. Stratfor

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/1/2010 7:49 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (April 25 - April 30)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/1/2010 6:19 AM | Add Comment

Do Financial TV Networks Market Warren Buffet For Their Gain And Then Ignore His Wisdom?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/24/2010 8:31 AM | Add Comment

"We Hit the Jackpot...." said Henry Kravis

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/24/2010 7:30 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (April 18 - April 24)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/24/2010 6:36 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Indo-US Naval Wargames begin in the Arabian Sea

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/24/2010 6:28 AM | Add Comment

Obama's India Problem Or India's Obama Problem?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/17/2010 9:04 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (April 12 - April 17)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/17/2010 8:12 AM | Add Comment

Could Israel Turn Into Another India?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/20/2010 7:35 AM | Add Comment

Hollywood Talent Soars Toward Bollywood While "Elite" Indian-Americans Remain Snobbish

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/20/2010 7:05 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (March 14 - March 20)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/20/2010 6:05 AM | Add Comment

The Concept of Na-Pak or Im-Pure - The Real Problem of Pakistan

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/13/2010 7:50 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Dr. Ashley Tellis Speaks to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on LeT

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/13/2010 6:59 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (March 7 - March 13)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/13/2010 6:28 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Tendulkar the Terrific - Thanks Wall Street Journal

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/6/2010 8:08 AM | Add Comment

An "Anti-Defamation" Petition to Penguin Books USA & Penguin Books India from the Global Indian Diaspora

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/6/2010 7:47 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Apology for Offensive Cartoons from a Danish Newspaper - A Lesson for Indians Worldwide?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/6/2010 7:11 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week ( March 1 - March 6)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/6/2010 6:13 AM | Add Comment

The Hoagland Opinion - An Intelligent, Insightful & Must-Read Article

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 2/20/2010 9:16 AM | Add Comment
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