We believe that lack of education breeds ignorance and ignorance breeds cultural racism. This may be the hidden factor behind media’s portrayal of the Afghanistan situation. The French used to look down on the Vietnamese as primitive and unintelligent. The French Generals were proud of being the country of Napoleon and they underestimated Ho Chi Minh. The results are…
When you speak to Indian-Americans about Air India, they usually grimace. This is because, they remember like we do, how awful Air India used to be. The service on air was usually good and friendly. But the facilities on the ground were bad and the attitude of the ground staff was awful. You got the…
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President Obama gave a speech about education, innovation & the economy at the Hudson Valley Community College on Monday, September 21. In this speech, he said “a nation that out-educates us will out-compete us later”. We concur. This is why we explore an area in which America has begun losing its traditional leadership due to an inherent weakness…
Chandrayaan-I, India’s maiden lunar mission discovered water on the moon. This amazing discovery was announced by NASA in a press conference in Washington. “Water ice on the moon has been something of a holy grail for lunar scientists for a very long time,” said Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “This surprising finding…
Most people in India have grown up in the belief that Aryans & Dravidians signify the separate ancestry of north & south Indians. This myth has now been conclusively put to rest by a painstaking study conducted by Indian Researchers on ancestral Indian populations and Harvard University. It demonstrates that there is a genetic relationship between…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with brief 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…
Last week was dominated by the expose of Acorn. Every day, a new and more disturbing video of ACORN was released. As a result, ACORN has now become a full-blown political scandal. Last week, Fox was in seventh heaven while the 3 major networks were again made to look irrelevant. The left leaning media was caught in a firestorm…
This week President Obama reversed the decision of the Bush administration to build a Ballistic Missile Defense system (“BMD”) in Poland. His right wing critics, especially the Neocons, have blasted this decision. We think it is a very smart decision and a timely one. Russia is an emotional issue for the Neocons and for the old…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with brief 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…