A simulacrum of and for the times in which it was written, I first came across Anatole Broyard’s “Kafka was the Rage” when…
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Beliefs – a tether that yokes one to notions of reality and absurdity An invisible rope which binds man yet tricks him into…
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Carlo Rovelli is the William Wordsworth of Physics. He has this uniquely gifted quality of reducing the most complex and convoluted ideas down…
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I am the observer and the observed, thinker and the thought Schrodinger’s ‘asleep-awake’ cat, I am the ink & the seed of thought…
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The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur: How the Pulwama Case Was Cracked – Rahul Pandita
On the 14th of February 2019 in Pulwama, a notified area council approximately 30 kilometers south of Srinagar, a radical and fundamentalist youth…
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Pax Sinica: Implications for the Indian Dawn – Samir Saran & Akhil Deo
In the interregnum between the publication of “Pax Sinica” by Samir Saran and Akhil Deo and the crushing second wave of the COVID-19…
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Nehru, Tibet and China – A.S.Bhasin Francis Bacon once memorably said, “It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves,…
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Unseen, unheard, unassuming and unknown Empathy is the sprout of goodwill long ago sown; An able ally to all the good souls looking…
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From Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un: How the Hardliners Prevailed: On the Political History of North Korea (2007 – 2020) – Thomas Schafer
Thomas Schäfer had the unenviable task of serving as the German Ambassador to North Korea for eight years. His tenure was in two…
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Billions of twinkling stars adorning the tranquil night Harbouring secrets beyond the grasp of human might and sight Looking down poignantly on an…