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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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I am the observer and the observed, thinker and the thought Schrodinger’s ‘asleep-awake’ cat, I am the ink & the seed of thought…
On the 14th of February 2019 in Pulwama, a notified area council approximately 30 kilometers south of Srinagar, a radical and fundamentalist youth…
In the interregnum between the publication of “Pax Sinica” by Samir Saran and Akhil Deo and the crushing second wave of the COVID-19…
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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Thomas Schäfer had the unenviable task of serving as the German Ambassador to North Korea for eight years. His tenure was in two…
Billions of twinkling stars adorning the tranquil night Harbouring secrets beyond the grasp of human might and sight Looking down poignantly on an…