Category: International Politics
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Why Osama bin Laden was a bigger catch for the United States than Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Two self-styled terrorists, one brought the war to the United States on the American soil while the other dragged the United States to a foreign land. Both killed for having messed up with the United States yet, Osama Bin-Laden remains the biggest catch. President Donald Trump claimed in his address to the American public after…
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Why the Prophet Muhammad and Islam will not accept Abu Baker Al-Baghdadi’s ISIS “Caliphate”
A man meditating alone in a cave near Mecca received a religious vision. The vision that laid the foundation for a new religion. The year was 610 AD and the man was Muhammad. The belief in him of his followers gave birth to one of the most widely practiced religions: Islam The vision sets religion…
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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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The Moon: Dreams of A Young Nation
“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars”, some of these brightest stars sat in the control room of Satish Dhawan Space Centre while they made history for their fellow country people and the entire mankind. It was for the first time that a country as young as India had ambitions to soft-land on…
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Putin’s Russia and the Ghost of the Romanovs
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family, the Romanovs, were murdered 100 years ago on July 17, 1917, by Marxist revolutionaries. What does this anniversary mean for Vladimir Putin? Revolution came to Russia in February 1917, a month later in March the king of the Russian Empire Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne. With the revolution in many…
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Not So Chori Chori Chupke Chupke: Bombay, The Mafia, Bollywood, and the Politics Trail
Reliving the Mumbai mafia’s affair with politics, Bollywood, glitz, and glamour. Mumbai, the city of dreams, is an exciting mix of people, culture and heritage. There are facets of individuals and groups trying to win over this city and rule it, but everyone has failed except the Mumbai Mafia. The first dons of Bombay, Karim…
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The Decade of a Financially Strong China and India’s Wait For The Turn
Coming out of pools of data, how China made its own mark in the world economy and how India is getting ready to beat it Its been a decade now since Lehman brothers, Investment banking company went bankrupt triggering the world economic crisis of 2008. 2008 crisis was as bad as the 1930s global economic…
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