In China, it is estimated that about 100 million people suffer from various kinds of mental illnesses. Out of those people, 16 million are believed to be severely affected by their conditions. Meanwhile, another 250 million are believed to need ps...

All institutions become slaves to the process. The parliament goes through a process and a law gets made although the institution was meant for threadbare discussion whether the proposed piece of legislation is lawful. That task is left to another...

In addition to stealing technology from the West, the Chinese economy rested on three pillars. First, a stable social order even though it was maintained through intense surveillance and propaganda. Since the turbulence of Tiananmen Square massacr...

Ilhan Omar is an Islamist hardliner who came as a refugee from Somalia to the US, as her motherland had become a failed state due to the depredations of the Islamist terror group Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen that claims to be waging jihad again...

An incident in Tangshan in China has stoked fresh discussion in the communist country about unchecked violence against women. On June 10, 2022, Gangsters entered a restaurant, sought sexual favours from women diners and tried to molest them. The c...

Thinkers bristle at the thought of consensus. Michael Crichton, the famous science fiction writer and the author of “Jurassic Park”, called consensus the “refuge of scoundrels” and the quest for consensus in science as pern...

he war against COVID19 is a rare instance when all countries of the world have a common enemy. Realpolitik is still motivating nations to seek advantage of this “war” to weaken other nations. As a result, almost all nations have been f...

Three countries have a deep interplay with Indo-US relations. Two of these share borders with India and the one that does not maintained a much stronger bond with India than the two neighbours. During the Cold War, Russia’s relations with In...

The Chinese economy has grown rapidly. Its exports dominate the world trade and its trade surplus and foreign reserves dwarf those of any other country. Yet, there is something unsettling about the state of the economy of a nation where the export...

Mahatma Gandhi’s oft-quoted words, that “a nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members,” though uttered in 1931, can be applied to any era to measure the degree of civilization. In Roman law, the con...

If we believe Bertrand Russell then we do not have much to choose between democracy and dictatorship; “Democracy; the fools have a right to vote. Dictatorship; the fools have a right to rule”. Russell was a mathematician and a philosop...

Long ago, which is until December 2019, we were free people. We could travel, go to the movies, organize parties and attend funerals. We could even cough and sneeze. Crowds were so much a part of life that here were advocates of online working, of...