Of poached eggs and maple syrup on July 29, 2018Mediterranean food in the morning is key to healthy living for all the people of littoral states. Good breakfast and health of a nation are therefore merely synonymous not a poppycock. Gastronomics is linked to the causative reason that how people thick, afterall, the garden of Aden near tigris was a mouthful of all the […]
Where men and mountains meet on June 24, 2018Switzerland is a country whose economy is based on state sponsored tourism. States do not indulge in any of the activity which is devoid of public support. Public private partnership is not a corporate term; it is a political term rather a term of political economy or more precisely the local political economy. Taliban phenomenon […]
Nuclear security, AI and the future on May 23, 2018The western world is taken over by a storm and surge which is so overwhelming that everybody or who’s who of any significance are talking about it. This is the Artificial intelligence (AI), a revolution in the making. The research on this concept started in early 1950, but later few decades were lost to the […]
NSG and nuclear exceptionalism on April 16, 2018American Exceptionalism is an ideology that, USA is unique amongst the nations. If history, anthropology and geography are exceptions, therefore the intangibles of a nation are also exceptional. In egalitarian terms exceptionalism is not a very positive concept, it is when you are somewhat above the norms, laws and general principles of mutuality, then you […]
India’s Hydrological War on March 25, 2018Wheat belly is a book which has revolutionized the concept of nutrition and diet. As per the author wild wheat has 13 chromosomes, what is there now has over forty. The human kind is seriously altering the food chain and damaging both the botanical and zoological bio diversity, sometimes under the garb of natural selection […]
Indian sharp power — A Trojan in a tavern on March 4, 2018Defining power is a difficult thing not because of literacy snags, but due to different manifestations of this simple word. In social context power is of many types, inspirational, rewarding, informational, legitimate, cohersive and referent. These aspects of power are very pertinent, because in this era of technological advancement there is a need to be […]
Afghan Conundrum – the rise of a phoenix on February 18, 2018What is the difference between a boundary and a frontier? In allegorical terms, if two persons have relations which are confined to certain terms and conditions, they are living within boundaries, but once relations reach new heights, and they start exploring limits, that is when new frontiers are reached. In terms of geography, a border […]
Hybrid wars — Shakespearian tragedy of the Orient on February 11, 2018Charles Fried in his book “Modern liberty and the limits of government” has provided an intellectual feast to all those interested to know the art, limits and extent of governance. Physical liberty comes first or the liberty of ideas and minds, this question was addressed in the West centuries ago, courtesy Enlightenment and Reformation movement. […]
Nuclear posturing — a bend on the road on January 21, 2018The world we live in is no more a stretch of horizons under cosmic energy. Three forces, globalization, technology and climate change are reshaping everything around us. As per Thomas L. Friedman, interestingly all these forces are accelerating at the same time. God knows that will there be, rip opening the globe, sewing it to […]
Buzzing trumpet and Pak-US tango on January 7, 2018Different phenomena are taking over the world one after the other; climate change, population growth, inequality, technological multiplications, progress in health sciences, territorial re-orientations and the emergence of a new (disorderly) world order. Henry Kissinger, the lead strategist for all times must have been perplexed to see, what is now shaping as the US foreign […]