There is something deeply telling about a country’s highest-ranking military officer choosing a hotel lobby in Singapore – rather than his own parliament – to tell the world that his air force took losses in battle. No press conference on home soil. No address to the nation. No formal statement to India’s elected representatives. Just […]
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On Washington DC’s hidden Islamic trail
The ‘David’-like physiology and ‘Nike’ wings were Greco-Roman, but his turban, beard and ‘semitic’ face, were unmistakably of the East. He sat majestically with one arm under his chin and his right foot atop a distilling retort. “Those figures represent the building blocks of Western civilization. There’s Spain, England, the Middle Ages, even Islam is […]