We have consistently argued that America’s framework for understanding Af-Pak has been a carry forward of the British colonial framework for Afghanistan. We have also pointed out that the entire American Establishment is overwhelmingly European in its education and orientation. This includes American Diplomats, American Military, American Pandits and American Media. Cultural Supremacism is a…
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Rarely does one read a book of great importance, a book that opens our eyes to a problem of global significance and that too in an arena we all think we know. This article is about such a book. It is a book of scholarship, a book that must be on the desk of every…
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…
President Obama entered the White House convinced that America’s great problem in foreign policy was its fractured relationship with Muslims. This was not just his own conviction but one that had achieved the aura of a globally accepted “fact”. Therefore building a dialog-based trusting relationship with the world’s Muslims became the foundation of his foreign…
The book That Used To Be Us has two authors, Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandlebaum. We used Mr. Friedman’s name in our title for brevity and also because he seems to the TV face of the book. In the rest of this article, we will use the plural. When we leafed through the book, 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…
Below is the list of this Blog’s most popular articles for the third quarter of 2011. 1. Gandhi vs. Lelyveld – Are Editors of Washington Post and New York Times Biased Against Hindu Ethos? – April 16, 2011 2. The Karna-Arjun Battle in The Maha-Bharat – Beyond Adjectives – September 20, 2008 3. Cultural…
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…
Adam Smith (1723-1790) is widely regarded as the father of modern economics and capitalism. His work, Wealth of Nations, is his magnum opus and one of the most influential works on economics ever published. Edmund Burke (1729-1797) is considered by many to be the father of modern conservatism. Karl Marx (1818-1883), of course is the…