Category: Geo-Strategic Issues (incl. Nuclear, Oil, Energy)

Beware the colour of money – UPDATED

Some of you must be aware of how sovereign wealth funds are putting huge amounts of money to rescue large US banks hit by the sub-prime crisis. See e.g. World Rides to Wall Street’s...

More on Nano…and blindspots – from Sheshabalaya

Ashutosh Sheshabalaya ,whom I quoted in my earlier post, has followed up with another brilliant piece of writing in The Globalist in which he talks about Nano and India’s impact on the larger global...

On Nano, global warming, India and China

Srinivas Bharadwaj, writing in rediff recently, made some great points about the “trashing” of Nano by some in the western media (“Why some US scribes slammed Tata Nano“, Jan 14 ’08) � Excerpts: “…Tata...

Don’t worry, be happy*

Esteemed Foreign Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee quoted in various reports talking about the issue of cross-border incursions by China: Sometimes incursions take place… but there (is) no need to press any “panic button” 🙁 Please...

From the tragedy, some unsavoury truths

Below, a collection of short excerpts from various reports and analyses following the tragic assasination of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. *** From M. A. Muqtedar Khan’s (Associate professor and director of Islamic Studies, University of...