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Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone - Issue #53: Time is nigh for News Satyagrah

They have appropriated the high road to themselves. Arrogated, if you will. Fascist in actions, intent, moral ethics and ways, they have large signs and clunky loud-speakers declaring themselves as ‘liberals’. That they aren’t. The mic and the platforms they had encroached upon to stifle every other voice are

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone - Issue #52: Equality between Xs and Ys

Why do people behave the way they do, even when they know what the truth is? Hasn’t this crossed our minds so often? World is what we make of it. Not what it really is. Every book, every event, every statement has several different interpretations. Why? Because what we

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone - Issue #51: Valor unbound and shameless treason

World has been hit by the worst crisis in our lifetime. It is a pandemic that has brought everyone to his/her knees. How is the world doing as the second wave threatens to take over? Also, stories of superhuman valor and pathetic treachery. Beings like Gurjeet aren’t born

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone - Issue #50: Return of the Corona and the Chinese Situation

Either we all have a gun or no one does, except those who keep law and order - based on laws agreed by everyone. In a society that is built on mutually agreed principles - called a Constitution. The guarantee of a Constitution is that it presents everyone in a

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone - Issue #49: Soft Power and its ramifications

Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA had once said “India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.” Bodhidharma was the third son of a Tamil king of the Pallava Dynasty, who took the understanding of Dhyan

Soft Power: What is it and why is it important?

Soft Power: What is it and why is it important?

As Xi Jinping was getting ready to take over power from Hu Jintao, he was also bringing about another change [https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-big-bet-soft-power] to the entire geopolitical strategy that China was to follow. The focus on soft power. The 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

Sushant Singh Rajput - the lost journey

Those who are adventurous and fearless, are also highly vulnerable. Those whose intensity knows no fear of death can attain to the highest or lose it all in that pursuit. Sushant Singh Rajput. Oh… the lost journey. When Guru Gobind Singh asked his disciples for their blood for him, only