One year after Hamas attack on Israel: Two worlds set apart

October 15, 2024

7th Oct, marking the anniversary of Hamas’s unprovoked, horrific terrorist attack: killing over 1200 innocent, unarmed civilians and taking over 200 hostages, was a somber affair in Israel. The national flag was flying at half mast, relatives of the remaining hostages were clinging on to the hope that they will...

What Will Netanyahu say If He ever Faced The Judgement Day?

July 28, 2024

I guess, in Judaism, unlike Hinduism and some other religions, for afterlife, the concept of heaven and hell doesn’t exist though the orthodox Judaism stresses that one must do good deeds as it is right thing to do but without expectation of any hypothetical future reward. So, obviously, Netanyahu won’t...

Vikram Misri: Best Choice for the Foreign Secretary

July 2, 2024

What are the unmistakable concerns of the world today? Ukraine- Israel-Gaza: long drawn Conflicts accompanied by incalculable human sufferings & humanitarian crises and infrastructural destruction with no end in sight and huge negative consequences for the Global South. Impending Change of Govts in the UK. France, Iran, USA and more...

Did we misread the Message?

June 12, 2024

The largest democracy in the world has held the largest election with the participation of the largest number of the voters, roughly 700 million (twice the population of the USA) over a period of seven weeks without violence. All Indians, irrespective of their political affiliation, caste, creed, region and language;...

University campus protests in USA & Biden’s bid to remain in the White House

May 8, 2024

It’s an open secret that the Israeli Lobby enjoys, arguably, the maximum political, financial & academic clout in USA. It also commands enormous Influence in the media, both the print media & the electronic media and, now, in diverse social networks. No Presidential candidate can hope to win the race...

G-20 Summit in Delhi: A celebration of unity, diversity, and India’s rising global leadership

September 9, 2023

Well, India is all geared up and fully decked to host the G-20 Summit this week. The Pragati Maidan ( Bharat Mandapam) and area around it, especially the entrance facing the Bhairon temple have been transformed beyond recognition. With hundreds of fountains in colours, lions, elephants, other animals, Musicians ,beautifully...

Celebrating 75 years of India-US relations

July 20, 2022

When the American naturalist, poet and philosopher Henry David Thoreau wrote his famous essay “Civil Disobedience” in 1849, he had no idea that it will, six decades later, resonate with and inspire an Indian lawyer, Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi in South Africa who will, on his return to India, shake...

Fear of China is the biggest glue that binds Quad

June 8, 2022

Going by the optics of beaming smiles of the US President Joe Biden, Indian PM Narendra Modi, Japanese PM Fumio Kishida and the newly elected Australian PM Anthony Albanese who rushed to join the summit in less than 24 hours of his election, visible bonhomie, personal chemistry, long joint statement...

Lines blur between politicians and civil servants

May 7, 2022

Hurling accusations at each other and indulging in an unending blame game, with no holds barred, is usually associated with the politicians whose representatives battle it out every day at prime-time TV debates and on Twitter and other social networks.' What kind of image do we wish to project abroad:...

For a safer, peaceful world, Putin must be stopped

April 16, 2022

Long ago, Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of our nation and one of the greatest apostles of peace in modern times had said, “If you witness an act of violence being committed before your eyes and don’t protest against it and don’t try to stop it though you have means to...