From the Ruins of the Empire – The Name & the Conclusion Demonstrates the Book’s Fallacy
Last week, we described the “intellectual attention” showered on Pankaj Mishra’s new book From the Ruins of the Empire: The Intellectuals Who ...
Category: History
Forgive Them, O Mahatma, for They Do Not Know What They Say
This past week, Indians celebrated Gandhi Jayanti, the birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi., known with loving reverence as Mahatma Gandhi. Today...
Two Perfect Products, Two Superb Marketers, Two Bad Books
What is a perfect product? A product that meets existing unmet demand. And if that perfect product is matched with a superb marketer, you have a terrific succes...
China & Japan – The Perils of Proximity
Vishnu-Gupt, the celebrated “Kautilya”, wrote Artha-Shastra, the definitive treatise on Politics, Economics & GeoStrategy around 300 BCE. An Ach...
The New Egypt & a New Sunni Awakening
Remember Cairo’s Tahrir Square in January 2011? That was such a heady time for Egypt and for the true believers. Tom Friedman was ecstatic, Anderson Coope...
The Svastik & Anti-Svastik; The Cross & Anti-Cross – Ignorance or Laissez-faire Racism?
What do you think when you hear or read the word Swastik? You immediately think about Nazi Germany. Why? Because you have been told that the Swastik is a Nazi S...
2012 & 1992; Paul Ryan & Al Gore; New Republicans & New Democrats
These are personal reflections, actually my visceral reactions to the political drama unfolding in this election. To me this election seems so 1992. I felt this...
Happy August 15th to India & the Indian Diaspora
This week, India celebrated its Independence Day. All of India and the global Indian diaspora celebrated this day with color and passion. The core desire of thi...
The Real India, Winner India
Editor’s Note: As promised last week, we take readers back to the glory days of India in this article. We do so by borrowing from the Bharatiya Vidya Bhav...
The Search for The Eternal Truth
Editor’s Note: This coming week celebrates the Independence of India from British rule on August 15, 1947. We will celebrate this day with two articles, o...