Category: Politics
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If there is anything more humiliating than the way USA dictates its laws over the laws of other sovereign nations, it is the way third world countries like India allow it to happen. First they sell us billions of dollars worth military equipment. What comes free with their arms is the superiority of their laws which…
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Chapter 1: The blinding cocktail The Union Carbide plant of Bhopal leaked a cloud of 42 tons of toxic cocktail into the air of the densely populated city. None of the six safety systems of the plant were functional and the machines were rusted. Union Carbide’s own documents say that the company designed the plant…
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In the 1992 British general elections, Neil Kinnock led the British Labour Party, which eventually lost. With that he left politics and became a university president. In 2000, Al Gore lost to George Bush, after which, he left politics and became an environmentalist. When these leaders withdrew following a defeat, their parties got a chance to make…
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Till 1775, India and China possessed 50% of the world’s total wealth (today they possess about 50% of world population). Anyways, for thousands of years, we never clashed. There was only educational and cultural exchange between us. Then, in the year 1962, it all changed. On the 50th anniversary of the Sino-Indian war, it is important…
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In a modern sense, Nationalists and Communists are soul enemies. The last time a party combined the two and came to power, World War II happened and millions of people were killed. Interestingly, both the nationalists and the communists of India consider Shaheed Bhagat Singh as their hero. And why not? Bhagat Singh was among the few…
