Month: September 2019

The Tashkent Mystery: Lal Bahadur Shastri’s Death and the Subhas Chandra Bose Angle

  

  India, in the 1960s just 13 years into its independence was beamingly looking at its future-global partners and strategic allies that would help her hold its land against adversaries like China and Pakistan. Lal Bahadur Shastri took the top seat in the Parliament in 1965. He was a dynamic leader, having grown in the […]

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In Saddam’s Shadow: What has the American intervention changed in Iraq

  

2003-04, 15 years since the United States’ Operation Iraqi freedom ended, many in Iraq feel that its brutal dictator Saddam Hussein has gone for a good while others are still nostalgic about his rule.   Iraq became a notorious country under Hussein’s rule, It invaded Iran in 1980 and launched a full-scale war to capture […]

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Just The Right Image: Brand Modi is Bigger and Better

  

  Today Modi is unassailable. He just needs to change gears, from a salesman to a statesman   Authoritarian, communal and megalomaniac were the words media used to describe Prime Minister Narendra Modi 10 years ago. 2019, that same Modi has entered his second term as the head of the state with a bigger and […]

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“I gotta have Faith”: The Big Bang Arrival of a Matured George Michael

  

George Michael is a natural; even as images of his Wham! days start to fade to grey, some of his Wham! creations like Wake Me Up Before You Go Go! and Careless Whisper remain indelible. He was like Elton John of the Eighties who believed in the scientific side of music. Every beat and rhyme […]

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