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Desh Kapoor

Desh Kapoor

Seeker. Searching. Exploring. Indiscriminately chronicling his times.

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone: Issue #154 - Liberal Bigotry via Disparagement Humor, Agenda-Setting, and Priming

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone: Issue #154 - Liberal Bigotry via Disparagement Humor, Agenda-Setting, and Priming

(Photo by Luis Alfonso Orellana [https://unsplash.com/@alphonzs?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] ) > “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone: Issue #153 - The Scary World of For-profit Armies

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone: Issue #153 - The Scary World of For-profit Armies

(Photo by Maxim Potkin [https://unsplash.com/@maxzzerzz?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/soldier?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] ) > “The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone: Issue #152 - Slaves and Despots - Lessons from Turkish Slave Dynasties

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone: Issue #152 - Slaves and Despots - Lessons from Turkish Slave Dynasties

(Photo by Manyu Varma [https://unsplash.com/@varmamanyu?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] \ “Theyyam is a popular ritual form of worship of North Malabar in Kerala, India. People

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone: Issue #151 - The Naxal-ISI plot to destabilize India

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone: Issue #151 - The Naxal-ISI plot to destabilize India

(Sandstone formations at Antelope Canyon, Arizona \ Photo by Joshua Wilking [https://unsplash.com/@wilking?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] ) > “When you have eliminated all which is impossible,

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone: Issue #150 - Our milestone; and End of Civility

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone: Issue #150 - Our milestone; and End of Civility

Photo by Robert Collins [https://unsplash.com/@robbie36?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] > “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone: Issue #149 - The Spectacular Art of Self-Destruction

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone: Issue #149 - The Spectacular Art of Self-Destruction

Photo by Mr TT [https://unsplash.com/@mrtt?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] > “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone: Issue #148 - Ways of pre-British Indian Bankers and how India lost

Insightful newsletter of Drishtikone: Issue #148 - Ways of pre-British Indian Bankers and how India lost

(Photo by Dennis Buchner [https://unsplash.com/@baitman?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] ) > “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ― Albert Camus --------------------------------------------------------------------------------