Delhi celebrates International Museum Day with aplomb

There is no greater repository of cultural...

Music has always been my refuge: Eugenio Bennato

The legendary Italian folk musician and songwriter...

Phuket, surrounded by beautiful islands,rivals the Maldives and Bali

With endless coastlines, Southeast Asia offers a...

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Book captures the legend, history and spiritual heritage of Ganga

There is a reference to British hydrographic surveyor Sir William Wilcox, who postulated that the Bhagirathi river across the Himalayas appears to be man-made...

Globalist vs traditionalist: France is set to make a choice

The irruption of new technologies which have deeply transformed our ways of life and the erosion of centenary or millennial norms, values and practices...

Ukraine: Last frontier or endgame?

As tragic as the invasion of Ukraine is, bombing campaigns and invasions of Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya were no less sinful, but they...

Book looks at China’s ambitions, compulsions, concerns and interests

Among the many more or less recent works dedicated to the analysis of the relations between India and China, Zorawar Daulet Singh’s latest opus...

When Washington DC and Hollywood mirror each other

The crisis of the American nation long predates Trump because it is an effect of the growing antagonism between old fashioned American ‘Bible and...

Post-Democracy and Juristocracy in the Age of Confusion

A few days ago one saw on television what looked like a ghostly meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania. A masked French president Macron was in...

Donald Trump, J.K. Rowling and the politics of fantastic realism

Befuddled Americans watch all sorts of experts acrimoniously argue on screen about everything and fault malignant foreign powers for all that is wrong while...

Lebanon in the tempest

Lebanon is every now and then a victim of its past and of its geography, like many other states in the region, created as...

How the West lost

The price of this mega-crisis is bound to be paid in massive long-term unemployment and poverty all over the world.   Numerologists like to spot symbolic...

The 2020 perspective: New equilibrium or breaking point?

The global economy looks like a Titanic steaming at full speed towards some looming iceberg. In the aftermath of US President Donald Trump’s visit to...

Has the Trump era reached its breaking point?

By inundating the US economy with cheap money the President hopes to prevent a stock market crash which could put paid to his hopes...

Reminders of Vedic concepts of the state in ‘Greater India’

Rites inherited from Tamil South India are still applied in Thailand, Cambodia.   The recent coronation of King Rama X of Thailand brought back memories from...

US hegemony and the Chinese new Silk Roads

This is the second of a two-part article on the changing face of geopolitics. First part was published on 14 April.   China has long felt...

A great game is on to control the future

This first of a two-part article focuses on the geopolitical contest between US and China. Both countries have already been hurt by mutual sanctions.   In...

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