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

The Charlie Rose Show calls its host Charlie Rose an “acclaimed interviewer and broadcast journalist who engages America’s best thinkers, writers …in one-one interviews”. To his credit, the Tom Friedman website does not describe him in any grandiose words. But most people would agree that Tom Friedman is generally considered to be one of America’s…

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

Editor’s Note: In our articles about Afghanistan, we have complained about the lack of knowledge about Afghanistan and today’s Pakistan in the American Media. It is not enough to complain. It is important to do something about it. So we begin a series on the history of the Indian Subcontinent and focus on the important…

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

Editor’s Note:  In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series of…

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

Mr. Jim Yardley of the New York Times wrote an article last week titled Obama Invokes Gandhi, Whose Ideal Eludes India . The article begins by discussing President Obama’s “fascination with Gandhi” as Mr. Yardley put it. A little later in his discussion on moral force and political realities, Mr. Yardley quotes President Obama, “But…

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

In Mathematics, you begin with a hypothesis and then you either prove it or find a counterexample to disprove it. Unfortunately, Journalism does not lend itself to precise conclusions that can be proved or disproved. But sometimes, the sheer weight and persistence of empirical evidence can get close to a proof. Our first article on…

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

Editor’s Note:  In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series of…

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Preoccupation with “Major Religions” – First CNBC & Now Washington Post

Last week, James Cramer of CNBC said “there are 3 major religions” in an afternoon segment. To our simple mind, if there are 3 major religions, as a Corollary all other religions are non-major, if not actually minor. So in our opinion, Mr. Cramer’s comment could be reasonably construed as disparaging to and perhaps contemptuous…

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