Imagine this: two alpha students fighting in the playground, the whole school is distracted, teachers are running around to separate the two, it is a difficult and challenging time for everyone. In the geo-political arena, this is similar to how trade wars work! What is a trade war? A trade war happens when one country…
Over 3,000,000 cases and the number still grows. Over 200,000 deaths and the number still grows. Over 1,000 daily losses and the number still grows. 1 in 5 businesses at the risk of collapse and big names such as Debenhams, Laura Ashley, Carluccio’s, Fly be, Virgin Australia have gone into administration and harrowingly the number…
The world is reeling from the current Coronavirus pandemic! It is the single most deadly infection in recent memory and has the potential to become the deadliest in history. Governments are scurrying left, right and centre to find a solution and keep their population safe. Word wide infections and deaths are expected to rise exponentially…
1 litre of milk costs about a third of the average wage, 1 kg of powdered milk eats up approximately half and a loaf of bread is almost a quarter. Prices double nearly every 15 days! Even the revised IMF year end inflation projection for the country is 200,000%! Over 3 million people have immigrated,…
Sesame Street is a children’s educational programme and has served generations. One of the most famous Muppets on this long running show is the Cookie Monster who is best known for its voracious appetite and for eating almost anything, including inedible objects! After finishing off everything, it still wants more. Thus, if you give a…
“After Partition of 1947, demolition of Babri Masjid by vandals, with the connivance of some people, was the greatest tragedy of India. The Ayodhya verdict says it was illegal, but in the same breath sanctifies it. Well done, My Lords!” This is not a view from the streets but that of Markandey Katju, a former…
PM Modi, you may pat yourself on the back and think that you have outsmarted the world! But remember that there is many a slip between the cup and the lip especially in a complex, globalized, interdependent world with 24/7 visibility of all that you have done and said. The future may have surprises for…
“Article 370, a temporary transitional provision, is the biggest injustice with the people of Jammu and Kashmir, while the Article 35A is a constitutional blunder which was included through back door without the consent of parliament and the president. we wish the early abrogation of both these constitutional provisions”, said the BJP Jammu & Kashmir…
The nightmare scenario for the Lab our party has come true! The general election of the 12th of December has handed Boris Johnson’s Conservative party a sizeable majority! Seat after seat in Labor’s traditional heartlands of the north and midlands fell to the Tories. In the biggest moment of the night, the Conservative candidate overhauled…
Today virtually no one can stop Hussain Haqqani etal and BLA like organisations from making so called anti Pakistan statements. Even though the press and electronic media may not carry these, social media is a wide open arena for anyone to write and say anything. This is also exasperated by the three democratisations of globalisation…
