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. Yes, any one ...
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...