Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series of…
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 President Obama’s “fascination with Gandhi” as Mr. Yardley put it. A little later in his discussion on moral force and political realities, Mr. Yardley quotes President Obama, “But…
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 to precise conclusions that can be proved or disproved. But sometimes, the sheer weight and persistence of empirical evidence can get close to a proof. Our first article on…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series of…
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 Corollary all other religions are non-major, if not actually minor. So in our opinion, Mr. Cramer’s comment could be reasonably construed as disparaging to and perhaps contemptuous…
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 Straits of Malacca.” He later adds that “a million ships pass through the various Indian Ocean straits each year.” In our first review of “Monsoon”, we looked at the…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series of…
This weekend marks the beginning of Deepavali, the most important festival in Indian Dharma. Like all Indian precepts, the message of Deepavali is universal. It transcends all faiths and beliefs. Deepavali celebrates the victory of Good over Evil, something humankind has prayed for since its existence. The Samskrut word Deepavali literally means a row of…
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. There is no way we can write one review of “Monsoon”. To do any justice at all to this important book, we will have to write a few reviews,…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series of…