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 &#...
Month: November 2010
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 Ameri...
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 e...
Analysis in Robert Kaplan’s “Monsoon” – Similar to Analysis of Sub-Prime CDOs?
Editor’s Note: We spoke with Mr. Robert Kaplan before writing this final article in our series of reviews of “Monsoon”. We thank h...
Interesting Videoclips of the Week (November 13 – November 19)
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit e...
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 Presid...
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...
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 e...
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...
Burma – Where China & India Collide – From “Monsoon” by Robert Kaplan
It is not called the Indian Ocean for nothing. As Kaplan writes, “India stands sentinel astride the major sea-lanes from the Straits of Hormuz to the Stra...