Nearly some two centuries ago, the heavy-duty Hegel pronounced that “India has no history. It is a repeat of the same old…
News is doing the rounds that some young Muslim men, among them a journalist and a DRDO employee, have been picked up…
My alma mater, Wisconsin, is much in the news, sadly for some unlovely reasons, and some equally unlovely events at home remind…
This is a story that beggars belief, and puts into the shade everything we have thus far known of Narendra Modi’s prowess…
When the Bastille was stormed in July 1789, a handful of young and very starry-eyed English radicals — Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey —…
Between the 1830s and 1850s, the human race, chiefly in Britannia, evolved into animal spirits. Darwinism and Industrial Capitalism came together to…
What is happening among the Pakistan establishment currently must be regarded as extraordinary by any reckoning. What had always been known…
Duniya banAnei vAlei, kya tere mann mei samAyei, kAhei ko duniya banAyei? (whatever got into your head, o creator/ why did you…
I am sure that in the history of human discourse, somebody must have underlined the great paradox that informs not so much…
America , as you might know, has the Rifle Association. Nobody, but nobody, Republican or Democrat, may touch it. For the reason…
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