Editor’s Note: We try to find a mood-enhancing topic for the Fourth of July Weekend. Thanks to a regular and clearly well-informed reader from Mumbai, our quest is fulfilled. Guess this article can be described as Mumbai’s Fourth of July gift to our readers. We love chocolate and we try to eat as much of…
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…
The violent reaction around the world against Israel’s intervention in the Turkish Flotilla has cooled down but the ramifications of this incident will continue to spread. We may well look back at this incident as the beginning of a new unstable period in the Middle East. The old American posture in the Middle East was…
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…
The Middle East seemed to explode last week in angry protests against the Israeli action of boarding the Turkish ship and the tragic death of several activists on board the ship. This was considered to be another extremely rash, dangerous act by Israel in open defiance of international law and procedures. The other tragic error attributed to Israel was the…
Editor’s Note: This article is an exercise in journalism and journalism only. It is intended to describe history and to raise questions about the future. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investment decisions or consider any investment decisions based on any fact, opinion…
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…
Editor’s Note: Today, there is a widespread belief that Samskrut is a has-been language of very little consequence for modern India. A few readers responded to our article of last week in that fashion. So we thought it might help to inform readers about a similar period in Indian history when use of Samskrut essentially disappeared…
Editor’s Note: The FT article discussed in our article below was sent to us by a reader of the Blog. We thank him for it. We have written critical articles about many newspapers and editorial boards on this Blog, including the New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. In our opinion, these newspapers suffer…
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…