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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Lebanon in the tempest
Lebanon is every now and then a victim of its past and of its geography, like many other states in...
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....
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...
Crisis of democracy and secularism: Words in search of meaning
The West’s missionary promotion of its own socio-political ideology all over the world rings hollow when it is not able...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Insights about secret scientific research in the US
It shows the existence of a two-tier scientific culture, of which the upper tier would be a domain for clandestine...
Yoga established as a series of principles to shape communities
This monumental volume, Universal Brotherhood Through Yoga, was released at Vigyan Bhavan on 21 January 2019 by the Vice President...
A Paris-Berlin axis: New Franco-German treaty a snub to other EU members
The two countries are actually forming an alliance of their own by setting up a Franco-German Defence and Security Council,...
Book exposes negative stereotypes used to besmirch Hindu tradition
This work is among the latest from the prolific Hindu American author and Vedic teacher David Frawley, also known as...
The genesis of future Europe
The current concept of the EU is intended to relativise national sovereignties by subsuming them within a larger continental and...
Brazil sees the return of a ghost
The election of Bolsonaro marks the return of mostly white European conservative Brazil after a 13-year-long socialist interlude under the...
An accelerating motion picture: Remaking of World
Almost since the end of World War II the global might of the US has rested on the size of...
India’s future and Hindutva: Some thoughts on Mohan Bhagwat’s speeches about RSS
Hindutva is a non-sectarian, non-militant, cultural cement, bridging regional and sectarian borders and differences. The recent three-part presentation on...
The new brinkmanship and Thucydides trap
If the US, Britain and France persist in the policy to prevent a settlement of the Syrian civil war, they...
