An Immortal Story For The Ages
This is a story we heard in our childhood, a story that has been told for at least 3,000 years. It is the story of: a child from a poor family from the lower st...
Category: History
The Largest Battle of the 18th Century – The Saga of Mastaani & The Opening for the British
How did a private English company annex a huge sub-continent called India? India was not an undeveloped place. It was a rich land. It had a tradition of warfare...
Two Great Men of the Indo-Afghan Continuum
Editor’s Note: In our earlier articles about Afghanistan, we complained about the lack of knowledge about Afghanistan and today’s Pakistan in t...
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...
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...
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...
China Expands Vertically, India Horizontally – Chapter I of “Monsoon” by Robert Kaplan
Last week we promised Readers that we would review “Monsoon” by Robert Kaplan. Then we read the book. We realized we had misled our readers somewhat...
Baltistan – Where the World Meets for the Next Geo-Crisis?
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...
Did Sixty Minutes Engage in Deception in their Segment about Afghanistan?
Last Sunday, Sixty Minutes aired their clip of the 2001 defeat of the Taleban Government in Afghanistan. It was a good, positive clip that put to rest the false...