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, diplomacy and administration. So how did a private British company manage this colossal feat? There are two primary reasons, one is the decisive battle between 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…
Editor’s Note: In our earlier articles about Afghanistan, we complained about the lack of knowledge about Afghanistan and today’s Pakistan in the American Media. It is not enough to complain. So last week, we began a series on the history of the Indo-Afghan Continuum. Our intention is to bring you important figures & events that shaped…
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…
The Charlie Rose Show calls its host Charlie Rose an “acclaimed interviewer and broadcast journalist who engages America’s best thinkers, writers …in one-one interviews”. To his credit, the Tom Friedman website does not describe him in any grandiose words. But most people would agree that Tom Friedman is generally considered to be one of America’s…
Editor’s Note: In our articles about Afghanistan, we have complained about the lack of knowledge about Afghanistan and today’s Pakistan in the American Media. It is not enough to complain. It is important to do something about it. So we begin a series on the history of the Indian Subcontinent and focus on the important…
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…
Editor’s Note: We spoke with Mr. Robert Kaplan before writing this final article in our series of reviews of “Monsoon”. We thank him for his courtesy. We also thank Random House, the publisher of Monsoon and the Press Staff at Center of New American Security for their help. Remember the Financial Crisis and the Bailout…
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…