Author: Vikram Sood
It is dangerous for the US to try to create economies that are clones of itself with similar consumption patterns.
They will be just as profligate, and the planet just does not have the resources to meet this greed.
There must be a single message that should be going out; this does not mean a controlled media, but a media that thinks nationally even when it acts internationally.
French fries became ‘freedom fries’ and French toast became ‘liberty toast’ even in the US Congress café!
Most of us would remember how angry the US government was when the French refused to toe its line on Iraq in 2003. So French fries became ‘freedom fries’ and French toast became ‘liberty toast’ even in the US Congress café!
It was actually an agent handled by the CIA inside the African National Congress who, in August 1962, provided the exact details of Nelson Mandela’s movements, leading to his arrest
Vietnam War, the press was very much boxed in by the CIA.
Mere chest thumping, as India is prone to do, without much to back its claims, only dents its credibility.
It did not matter that fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were Saudis. There was just too much oil, too much money and too many fears (among the Saudis and Israel)
The Indians have their own problems regarding secular politics and a resistance to the politics of the Narendra Modi government.
A religion is whatever its individual believers understand it to be or make it to be.
If Islam is to coexist with democracy — whether in the Middle East, South Asia, Europe or the US — then Muslims, like millions of Jews and Christians before them, must discover more liberal ways of interpreting their faith.
In the US, the worlds of the government and corporate help and trust each other. Both gain from this partnership and the country gains as a result. In India, the government and corporate worlds distrust each other, and are often disdainful of the other. Both lose, as does the country.
Yet, the Cholas of south India, the longest-ruling dynasty in history
India exists, like its languages and religions, in many forms, all over the country.
A secular state must be equidistant from all religions.