The Cynic and the Emasculated Indian Politician

Having lived in the United States, the world’s second largest democracy and only superpower, and having seen through an election season here, I am certain that nothing in this democracy matches the scale of the campaigning and the colour and energy of an Indian election. It is strange that India, a country so divided and [...]

Politicised Religion and Atheism

TED has a number of insightful and interesting lectures, one of the most witty, interesting and thought-provoking of which, is this lecture by Richard Dawkins. Richard Dawkins, the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, is one of the controversial atheists at the forefront of the atheist-evolutionist nexus that hopes [...]

The Pakistan Conundrum

Three months have passed since the attacks on Mumbai’s hotels and train station, and much diplomacy and mudslinging between the Indian and Pakistani governments has resulted in few concrete solutions to the problem of terrorism. With a few more perishing and tens more affected directly by terrorism with each passing day in Pakistan, Islamists have [...]

Parallels between Palestine and Srilanka’s North

Calculated Strikes
Most of us are no strangers to recent happenings in the middle east. Unless living under a rock, one cannot say that they didn’t notice the large scale conflicts in Gaza and their timing – prior to the Israel elections and before the beginning of Obama’s term as President of the USA. This well-timed [...]

Tibet’s Future

I saw a moving documentary on the plight of the people of Tibet recently. I am utterly convinced that there are few things about the Chinese occupation of Tibet that seem legal or beneficial to the people of Tibet. Socialist China’s policies on religion do not favour the Tibetian way of life. Tibet, for long, [...]