Hungry Westerners: Why they should feed themselves and stop worrying about India
India is among the 45 countries that have “serious levels of hunger”, says the 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI). Of the 117 countries surveyed India is ranked 102, apparently being worse off than Bangladesh. More...
India Needs to Re-assess Donald Trump as a Suitable Partner and Icon
Recent events far from our shores are likely to have an existential and fundamental impact on India’s polity, national security environment, social framework and its ancient culture–cum-patrimony. The epicentre More...
As a Swing State, India must go with the West this time
Shortly after India’s independence in 1947, the United States started wooing the country’s leadership. Almost simultaneously, the USSR began its overtures to Pakistan. The reasons were strategic. While the Americans More...
Rape culture of White Christian countries
Scope of the Problem Violence against women and girls are very serious crimes. They pose a major public health problem and are a gross violation of women’s human rights. The United Nations definition describes More...
Dear American Lawmakers
Dear American Lawmakers, As a constitution abiding Indian citizen I was quiet delighted to find that you chose to write a letter to my country’s PM Mr. Narendra Modi and voiced your concerns about the status of More...
Not Gandhi but Japan Kicked out Britain from India
Mass desertions of loyal Indian soldiers to the Japanese-trained INA precipitated Britain’s withdrawal from India. On 15 November 1941, less than a month before Pearl Harbour, the Japanese leadership approved More...
The dangers of a “centralized” Hindu voice
Distributed resistance One of India’s key strengths through the ages has been its ability to defend its way of life against all odds, whether it was in 1857 or the centuries and millennia before that. Today, India, More...
Indian foreign policy: a wake up call
Indians and their policy makers share a belief that they are ineffably decent people, who embody worthy moral values. This was clearly the basis for Nehru’s much-reviled, pompous self-righteousness. It was in More...
Narendra Modi US Visa denial: an untold story
One of the reasons for the resignation of Nancy Powell as the American ambassador to India is said to be that she did not take proactive steps in the recent past for moving towards revoking the cancellation of the More...
Total US Imperial Dominance
The US emerged as the pre-eminent country once the USSR retreated dramatically in the early 1990s. It clearly became the pre-eminent military power in a unipolar world, with a supposed Chinese challenge remaining More...