Once upon a time, a jackal trying to escape from a hunter from Varanasi, happened to fall into a tub of paint- dyeing his fur a bright blue....

In the aftermath of Brexit and Trump’s victory, the future of the European Union looks increasingly shaky each day. With popular anger rising among Europeans owing to continuing...

On 13th December 2016, the Syrian Army (or the Syrian Arab Army, known as SAA) finally liberated the city of Aleppo from the Islamists who had overrun it...

Posterity will not look upon Obama as the messiah of equality and liberalism as he- and liberals across the World- purport him to be, but as an equal...

Porfirio Diaz, Mexico’s President during its prosperous yet violent Golden Age a hundred years ago, once lamented: ‘Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the...

The dust hasn’t settled over Trump ’s victory as yet, and even now liberal mobs are rioting across America- burning cars and attacking hapless pedestrians. And while reports...

1500 years ago, the Shiva Dhanurveda- one of the principal military manuals of the Sri Sri Gupta Mandala- or the Gupta Empire- declared: ‘(Enemy) heroes who faint, or...

Poor Baluchistan- so close to Pakistan and so far from liberty. But while the Baluchis do deserve and need our full sympathies, it might be possible that Indians-...

What do a now half-blind Kashmiri medical student, a young Syrian boy in Aleppo, and the citizens of Gaza have in common? Many things. The most important one,...

Back in 1990, when India was still a de facto Soviet client state and it cost INR 10 a minute to call someone on the phone, there had...

The recent coup- or whatever it was- in Turkey left a distinctly unpleasant smell in one’s nostrils. Mostly because it reminded many of this small fire that had...

On July 1st of this year, an anti-ship missile- the supersonic Hsiung-feng III (“Brave Wind”) - was launched from a Chinese naval vessel. It struck a Taiwanese fishing...