Below are this Blog’s 10 Most Popular Articles in the 1st Quarter of 2012 (in terms of viewer hits). 1. The Karna-Arjun Battle in The Maha-Bharat – Beyond Adjectives – September 20, 2008 – This is by far the most popular article since the inception of this Blog. 2. Gandhi vs. Lelyveld – Are…
Friday, March 23 was the beginning of the New Year based on Indian lunisolar calendar. It is the celebration of Gudhi Padwa, the festival of celebration of the New Year. Mumbai was closed for business and open for celebration. (pictorial representation of a Gudhi) (picture of a Gudhi) …
The last three centuries have been owned by England and America. No other country or continent in the world has been able to compete first with England and now with America. There were several reasons for this dominance, industrial innovation and naval supremacy being two often cited. But underlying these was the foundation that allowed…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
This week, the Afghanistan strategy of the Obama Administration was ripped apart. Stratfor wrote, “The conflict’s inherent contradictions are being laid increasingly bare”. Mathew Green of the London-based Financial Times wrote that the recent killings have “not only unmasked the ugly face of the campaign but has cracked every faultline wider – the divide between…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
This week something highly unusual happened in America. The Prime Minister of a Foreign Country virtually promised on American soil to attack another country. Look what he said: And ladies and gentlemen, Israel must always preserve the right to defend itself. The Jewish state will not allow those who seek our destruction to possess the…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
We are at a critical juncture in Afghanistan. Recent events have cast very serious doubts about the viability of the current policy of training an Afghan army to take over from the US Military. The tragic deaths, murders really, of six Americans at the hands of their Afghan “colleagues” have damaged the hopeful intellectual basis…
When Cairo’s Tahrir Square was full of protesters a year ago, when the American media was full of talk of democracy in Egypt a year ago, we wondered about the nature of the post-Mubarak Egypt. We asked at that time whether the new Egypt would use a Russian, Iranian, Pakistani or a neo Turkish-Egyptian model….