Questions he keeps returning to about Hindu scripture as history: Kurukshetra, the yugas, the weapons described, and who wrote the Bhagavad Gita.
Category: World
Interesting Quotations from Media
Three notes copied from newspapers into a phone: the myth of the Japanese factory manager, ICBMs as the idiom of power, and what makes a major power.
Sino-India Relations: Article Recommendation
A short note pointing to a Livemint piece on the Sino-Indian chess game, and the view that India has mishandled its relations with China and the US.
Nouriel Roubini and his suggestions for handling the global financial crisis
Excerpts from two Nouriel Roubini articles in the WSJ and FT on Geithner’s PPIP, banks that kept paying dividends, and letting insolvent banks fail.
Mumbai Terror Attacks – No Fate
Written four days after the Mumbai attacks: why he holds India’s response a failure, with the political remarks and absences that followed it.
Mumbai Terror Attacks – Necessary Info Collated
Collated information on the November 2008 Mumbai attacks: casualty figures, hospital and embassy helplines, and lists of the dead and injured.
My piece of mind on current geo-politics, war and religious polarization with suggestions
Views on the war on terror as a religious confrontation, traced from the Crusades onward, with lists of suggestions for America and the Arab world.
The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (Book Review 007)
A review of The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman, read over a month with a pencil in hand and kept afterwards as a reference rather than shelved.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a young girl (Book Review 006)
A review of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, the 25 months in the Secret Annexe and the arrest that ended them. He finished the book feeling grief.