At your next cocktail party, drop the word Baltistan. The blank stares you get would be an ego-booster. Then drop the name Gilgit, the capital of Baltistan, and you will be regarded as an elite intellectual. This is because very few people have heard of Baltistan or Gilgit. Baltistan is where the world meets today. This is…
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Our basic tenet is that Ignorance is the root cause of Bias. Ignorance stems from a lack of education and leads to biases that enter the minds of people. These biases get deeply embedded with years of brainwashing, an art of repeating falsehoods often and in different styles. We find all of these aspects widely…
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…
This month a new article entered our Top 10 List. That article is Indian Education System vs. US Education system – Hype vs. Reality . While we welcome this article, we bid adieu to the oldest article in the Top 10 List, Flagrant Foul on Mark Haines and Erin Burnett – Their Conversation about India’s…
If there is a sacred cow in America, it is Protection of Intellectual Property or IP in short. There is good reason for this practice. Most of the world’s inventions are American in origin. American society has been enriched by the inventions of its citizens, individuals and corporations. If these inventions are not protected by…
Last week, we wrote an article titled The 2010 Flood in Pakistan – Similar Disasters, Similar Consequences? The point of this article was to compare today’s flood with the deadliest cyclone on record that hit East Pakistan in 1970. It is a matter of fact that the mishandling of that 1970 disaster by the Panjabi-Pakistani…
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…
Every one with a TV set has seen the horrific floods that swept Pakistan. Huge areas have been flooded, towns have been submerged and people have been rendered homeless. It is utterly tragic to behold. No one can predict what the consequences of this disaster will be in the months to come. But if you…
By now, it is clear that the problems facing America’s economy and recovery are structural. This week, Tom Friedman of the New York Times came out with an opinion about the structural problems facing America. Friedman discusses three structural problems in his article. First he points out the enormous debt America has piled on to…