It was already the dusk, the silhouette of the city in the mountains was visible with its dim far lights. Air all around was testing the olfactory responses with aroma of freshly baked loafs and the conifers wood burnt in earthen ovens of every house hold, wafting out through small chimneys. It was mile stone […]
Three cups of tea and tyranny of kettle
“First time you share a tea with a balti, you are a stranger. The second time you are an honoured guest. The third time you shared a cup of tea, you become family”. This depicts a culture so rich in values that even sharing cups of tea naturalizes you in a family. Culture, society, tribes […]
Of poached eggs and maple syrup
Mediterranean 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
Switzerland 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
The 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
American 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
Wheat 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
Defining 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
What 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
Charles 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. […]