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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

The Pregnant Elephant and the Tasty Giraffe

An elephant was killed in Kerala after she was fed a pineapple with crackers. She stood in the river Velliyar and collapsed after 3 days. She was pregnant. Society creates a crime. Criminal merely executes it. 0:00/6:031×An attempt to making sense out of it. You can

Moral Ethics and the Quantum Mind

Moral Ethics and the Quantum Mind

The real utility of Moral ethics is for the times when one faces choices that are repugnant. In normal times, there is not much morality to exercise. Western moral constructs need crutches of theories and pre-determined ideas to make decisions when situations are not straight-forward. Morality, therefore, depends on edicts

Anti-CAA Carnage Chargesheets – Actors and Motives

Anti-CAA Carnage Chargesheets – Actors and Motives

Violence that accompanied the anti-CAA protests was a collaborative and a pre-planned venture. Faisal Farooque, who owns Rajdhani School, which was used in the Delhi riots to bomb and attack Hindus in the area, along with Tahir Hussain’s house, had led the police to a lot of interesting connections.

Black lives matter only when Blacks are Free

Black lives matter only when Blacks are Free

America is burning today because one half of America believes they don’t matter. And they are crying as their young men are killed and all they are saying is that they matter – that Black lives matter… too! That is the legitimate part of the situation. But not the whole