With the introduction of the new notes, there has been no lack of people trying to come up with new ways to destroy said notes. Already on YouTube and other channels of Social...

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 Unites States.’ The same can...

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 are still uncoordinated, it appears...

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 are wounded, or whose weapons...

Ocean of Churn is the first time any historian in India- whether professional or amateur- has even touched upon the subject of Classical India’s maritime affairs since the legendary RC Mazumdar himself- and...

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- at least the Nationalists among...

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, for both us and their...

Modern education may well prove to be the greatest challenge facing Indian civilization today. I’m not talking about India’s eminent intellectuals. Enough ink has been spilt on decrying their intellectual stupidity over the...

Two centuries ago, the dying Simon Bolivar- the liberator of South America and the greatest revolutionary the World had seen or has since- lamented: “He who serves the Revolution, ploughs the Sea.” 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 been a war, now known...

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 broken out at the Reichstag...

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 trawler, killing three men. The...