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...
Category: Book Review
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...
“Revenge of Geography” on India – Depressing Evidence of a Programmed Mind?
Robert Kaplan is one of the most respected geostrategy analysts in today’s America. We confess we have learned more from him than from just about any non-...
Robert Kaplan on Afghanistan – from His “Revenge of Geography”
In the 3rd Presidential debate, both President Obama and Governor Romney spoke of Afghanistan in a futuristic past tense. They promised that America will leave ...
“The Revenge of Geography” by Robert Kaplan – Impressive Work, Unfulfilled Promise?
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, the Prince of European diplomats, was famous for saying “speech was given to us to to conceal our thoughts“....