Survival Measure in Gaza

I guess I need not write anything about how desperate times call for desperate ways.


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Bush's Fav Words

The outgoing U.S. President George W. Bush is often the butt of jokes, especially for his way (or the lack of it) with words. The above image carries the words Bush loved to use in his eight State of the Union addresses. Must say one thing: American politicians are obsessed with words like freedom, liberty, and above all, the name of their own country.

India's Terror Dossier

It's been five months since I blogged last. In this period, I have written, apart from several short essays, seven full-length essays:

(a) Outpost of Tyranny (on the dangerous political and economic situation in Zimbabwe),
(b) A Gate and a Wedge (on the volatile history of modern Afghanistan and the resurgence of the Taliban),
(c) Hades in Darfur (on the humanitarian disaster in Sudan),
(d) Russia's Resurgence (and the rise of a police state, well almost),
(e) 123... and it's done (on the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal),
(f) Island of Blood (on the history of the conflict between the State of Sri Lanka and the LTTE), and
(g) Living in a State of Denial (on the Indo-Pak relationship in the wake of the Mumbai Terror Attacks).

Of course, I can not, for copyright issues, post these essays, running into thousands of words,on this blog. However, what I can do is to blog on my take on issues that are close to my brain.

For those of you who wish to read India's dossier on Pak's terror machinations, click here (Part 1), here (Part 2), and here (Part 3).

From today, I will, for my own sanity, blog on a regular basis.