Category Archives: Long View

Zohran Mamdani and Pinarayi Vijayan: Two Poles, Two Aspirations- The Story of Kerala’s Poverty Eradication Program

Kerala's Extreme Poverty Eradication Programme (EPEP) exemplifies Jack Rothman’s locality development model, where community participation, [...]

WHAT IS LEGITIMACY IN GLOBAL POLITICS?

(1/6) World Order, a sweeping tour of the world of high politics and diplomacy, is [...]

SWISS MILITARY, SWISS NEUTRALITY AND SWISS BANKS

  These two items are quite famous. Almost associated with the Swiss brand. But does [...]

IN THE CRADLE OF EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE

One of the things I was fascinated by during adolescence and early adulthood was the [...]

CONSTANTINE’S SWITCH

What lies underneath the marbles that covered  the Colosseum? But  you hardly see any marbles [...]

SLEEP ,DREAMS AND CONCOCTION OF ARMCHAIR PHILOSOPHERS

  Recently I was on a panel discussion on neuroscience datasets at a premier engineering [...]

PROPAGANDA, ARTEFACTS, REASON AND LOGIC

  Revisiting his magnum opus Brave New World, Aldous Huxley cites the story of an [...]

FASHIONABLE NONSENSE

Fashionable nonsense is a sequel  of the ‘Sokal’s hoax’ on the manner in which ‘postmodern’ writers [...]

PARADIGMS OF MEDICAL PERCEPTION

Micheal Foucalt’s The Birth of Clinic is a relevant read for those who are interested [...]

‘KARMA IS NOT REAL- IT’S PSYCHOLOGICAL’

Sept 2021 ‘Karma is not real; it’s psychological’ This above was the quip my 9-year [...]