Few books get the attention and acclaim that has been given to the book by Charles Murray titled “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010”. The book, in the author’s own words, “deals with the divergence between the professional and working classes in white America over the last century.” In an Op-Ed in the…
Young men tend to be idiots. As they enter college, the world beckons to them and in their arrogance they tend to look down upon what is near them. This is especially true of ‘educated’ Indians. I know because the above description applies to me, to my college days. I remember my girlfriend telling me…
Today’s India prides itself on soft power. Even the soft power of Bollywood is soft. Every Bollywood hero has to dance to be successful. It is hard to imagine today that once the billboards all over Mumbai used to display large images of a wrestler, a world-champion and a folk hero. Every week, a famous…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
The biggest news of the past couple of weeks is the Supreme Court Decision on Obamacare. The next, in our opinion, is another weaker than expected Jobs report released on Friday, July 6. Instead of generating 125,000 or more jobs, as was expected by analysts, the U.S. economy only generated 80,000 jobs. This is the…
The global media featured the discovery of the Higgs boson particle extensively with photographs and lengthy articles. Virtually, every single article featured British Scientist Peter Higgs, for whom the first part of the particle is named. So now we know Higgs. But then what is “boson”? And why is “H” is always in large case…
Below are this Blog’s 10 Most Popular Articles for the second quarter of 2012 (in terms of viewer hits). 1. The Karna-Arjun Battle in The Maha-Bharat – Beyond Adjectives – September 20, 2008 – This is by far the most popular article since the inception of this Blog. 2. Cultural & Religious Defamation Tacitly…
Editor’s Note: In an earlier article, we asked Why Does India Tend to Collapse So Often? In that article, we wrote about the tendency of Indians to give up, to surrender in face of pressure. This article provides a stark modern example. What is the ‘Indian Subcontinent‘? Wikipedia defines it succinctly: “The Indian subcontinent is…
In our article Why Does India Tend to Collapse So Often, we alluded to the Indian tendency (over the last 1,000 years) to remain completely oblivious to events that are happening in their neighborhood, even events that, within a relatively short period of time, would end up being disasters for India. Over the past 1,000…
Way back on August 9, 2008, in our very first article on Afghanistan, we wrote a section titled Danger to Pakistan – What kills you is the danger you don’t see. Our simple concept that any success of the Taleban would result in a violent blowback into Pakistan. This simple concept has now penetrated the…