Dynasties of the Sea
We had never given much thought to shipping, the business of large ships plying the world’s oceans carrying massive amounts of cargo. If you own a shipp...
Category: Book Review
From Asia to Europe – Today’s World & the World of Marco Polo
Look at this week & the next – President Trump made a brief stop at the G-7 meeting, so brief & so uncomfortable to European “leaders...
From Chanakya To Modi – A Discussion of “Indian Exceptionalism” by Aparna Pande
As we wrote last week, “we have developed a healthy contempt towards the “work” American Think Tanks do about India“. Why? Because their R...
68th Independence Day & 30th Anniversary of a Himaalayan Victory
Yesterday, 15th August 2014 was the 68th Independence Day of Bharatiya Gan-Rajya or the Republic of India. The subcontinent, the country & its cultur...
Secretary Kerry’s Visit to India in a Histrio-Political Context
This week, Secretary of State John Kerry visited India to attend the Fifth India-US Strategic Dialogue. The impetus behind the visit was clearly stated i...
Forged In Crisis – India & USA Since 1947
Rarely does a book come along and offer sensible, practical, factual, and intellectually unbiased overview of a topic as large & complex as US-India ...
USA-Vietnam-China – Just Imagine If …
Editor’s Note: Ignorance is never a positive and ignorance blended with racial superiority convictions can lead to disaster. This is why America usually m...
Indian Subcontinent – A Revealing Book From a Veteran American Observer
By his own description, Bruce Riedel has been an observer, a witness and sometimes a participant in the events of the Indian Subcontinent for the last few decad...
Agriculture Nightmare – Is Indian Electocracy India’s Worst Enemy?
For decades, mothers around the world told their children not to waste food because of the millions of starving people in India. That India was a beggar with it...
Crisis in Europe & “The Great Rebalancing” by Michael Pettis
This week the European Crisis reemerged. The European Union acted with utterly inconceivable stupidity in confiscating a portion of monies of depositors in Cypr...