When will we have our own media channel?
I continue to feel very frustrated that in spite of the massive explosion in media and TV channels in India, there still is not a single channel (or a newspaper – although Pioneer and...
Category: Current Affairs
“No Dates, No Dancing” – TIME
Eye-opening article from the recent issue of TIME by Aryn Baker: “No Dates, No Dancing“. Excerpts: “…But to Westerners, there’s little else about Punjab U. that seems familiar. Walk around the leafy-green 1,800-acre campus,...
China, Africa and realpolitik
Came across these statistics in a presentation by Sebastian Teunissen , a Professor at Univ. of California. Pl. read in conjunction with my earlier post on this topic (“China’s investment and expansion in Africa”) and you...
Lets accept we are fighting with irrationality…
In the latest edition of Newsweek (Nov 6, “Goading the Enemy“), Martin Amis shares his thoughts on “Islamism”, terrorism and the challenge of combating irrationaility with reason and logic.� In an�engaging interview, Martin speakes...
Would our comrades care to look “eastwards”?
In yesterday’s (1st Nov) International Herald Tribune (IHT), I picked up a piece of news related to executions in China (“High Court in China to rule on all executions”). The news-story mentioned that “China’s...
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