Author: B Shantanu

Prescience or “common sense”?

Late last year, soon after the earthquake in PoK and Kashmir, I wrote an article about my fears that funds being generated for earthquake relief will find their way into “jihadi coffers”. I offered...

Words of the brave…

From the BBC website: In interviews with UK newspapers The Times and Financial Times, Mr Olmert said the force must have proper combat units, able to implement UN resolutions. He also said that Israel...

India-China-Japan-US and the politics of energy

Dear friend Ashutosh alerted me to this snippet. Here are his accompanying comments:  ****** Just to give you some more factoids about the geo-politics of energy between China and Japan. Expect this to become a full...

Madrassas on Nepal border…

The government still appears to be unwilling to make the�link between the increasing number of Madrassas along the India-Nepal border and infiltration of terrorists from Pakistan via Nepal. See this: “Around 1900 Islamic seminaries...

Haldi’s medicinal properties

A couple of recent news items on Haldi’s medicinal properties and how moderate quantities may help prevent Alzheimer and various forms of cancer. Last week British newspaper Daily Mail reported that, The occasional curry ‘could...