30 May, 2017

In 1958, Eugene Burdick and William Lederer wrote a book called ‘The Ugly American’. It was an instant bestseller in America, and has been in continuous print ever since. The book is considered to be one of the most politically influential books published in America, and is supposed to have impressed then Senator John F. Kennedy so much that he is reported to have purchased and distributed a copy to every one of his colleagues in the U.S. Senate. The book apparently influenced the conduct of

17 Dec, 2013

As we approach Christmas, one of the largest Christian religious festivals, celebrated through most of the World, we couldn’t help but reflect on the continuing, willful and incomprehensible conflict, between the practitioners of the three major and related religions that emanate according to their own Scriptures, from a single Divine source. Linearly, Judaism developed first, Christianity next, and a half a century or so later Islam. And, in spite of their God’s Commandments, in which they all