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India

Imperialism by Narratives – When Hindus have 'nothing to give up'

British poet, playwright, and writer, Samuel Johnson, once angrily retorted while discussing a girl who had converted from the Anglican Church to Quakerism “The heathens were easily converted, because they had nothing to give up; but we ought not, without very strong conviction indeed, to desert the religion in which

Desh Kapoor

27 Jan 20 6 min read

India

Historical Context clarifies the Significance of Ayodhya Verdict

One needs to look at every occurrence in context of time and space. As the updates of Ayodhya Verdict kept trickling in on November 9th from the court, I could not but go back in time and feel what someone in that era when Aurangzeb or Babur raped and pillaged

Desh Kapoor

10 Nov 19 7 min read

Environment

How food wastage and meat consumption could devastate food production on Earth!

There was a time when agriculture was simple and sustainable – read organic – and the process of food consumption and feedback to nature was sustainable. Farmer grew the crops, which were eaten by humans and farm animals and the feces of both would end up as natural fertilizer for the crops

Desh Kapoor

09 Sep 19 4 min read

India

Why Sachin Tendulkar was the Greatest Indian Batsman

As he walked out in the first innings of the final test against Australia in the 2003-04 series, Sachin Tendulkar had a stream of bad scores behind him – 0, 1, 37, 0 and 44. Ironically, his famous, almost legendary cover drive, had become his Achilles Heel. He had suddenly gotten

Desh Kapoor

13 Jul 19 7 min read

India

How has Virat Kohli changed the Indian team?

It has just been two years, when India lost to Pakistan by 180 runs in the Champions Trophy finals at “The Oval” ground on June 18, 2017. And two years hence, now, in the 2019 World Cup match, India beat Pakistan by 89 runs at Old Trafford on June 16,

Desh Kapoor

19 Jun 19 3 min read

Relationships

70% Indian Women have had Extra-marital Affairs says study

Gleeden [https://en.gleeden.com/] is an app for extra-marital dating “created by women”. It boasts of over 5.2 mn members world-wide. The site boasts of being run entirely by a 100% female team. And interestingly women have free membership on this site. Men, on the other hand, have

Desh Kapoor

27 Apr 19 4 min read

India

Charade of Peace, Talks, Mutilations and Terror: How Pakistan is Spectacularly Gaslighting India!

CJ Roberts writes in “Seduced in the Dark” – “I’ve been doing this a long time- manipulating people to get my way. That’s why you think you love me. Because I’ve broken you down and built you back up to believe it. It wasn’t an accident. Once

Desh Kapoor

28 Feb 19 7 min read

Motivation and Personal Development

Sexual Abuse and Addiction: Mental or Social Battle is Not Enough!

Sexual Abuse is everywhere in the news. Women of all professions in all countries are coming out with their encounters of sexual abuse by men – powerful and rich. In so many cases, women experienced those assaults in normal life. And these aren’t isolated cases. Women and men all over

Desh Kapoor

10 Nov 17 9 min read

India

History of Rohingya Terror – Nothing Humanitarian About it!

As the White Supremacism rises in the US and cops killing the minority victims are constantly let go scott-free, the feeling of persecution enters the mindset of minorities, specially the Muslims and some of them take up arms against the “excesses of the Government”. Such that the violence by the

Desh Kapoor

22 Sep 17 9 min read

AfPak

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Drones: Are Drone Strikes the Future of War?

Drones are being used more and their use will increase in the coming years. The poster-boy for the drone attacks has been Pakistan. US – and even Pakistan – have used it to great effect. Sometimes, there have been great misgivings, and the career-activists have been crying hoarse on the impact of

Desh Kapoor

09 Sep 17 4 min read

India

Demonetization: Detailed Drama of How Modi Checkmated Pakistan’s Devastating Assault

All the chairpersons and MDs of India’s top banks were meeting [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Demonetisation-Top-bankers-had-no-clue-got-a-few-hours-to-mount-operation/articleshow/55503552.cms] at Reserve Bank of India’s headquarters on the 15th floor of the Mint Street office in a special session that started at 7 pm. In Delhi, on the

Desh Kapoor

27 Nov 16 8 min read

Development & Welfare

Poor Income, Lower Social Status Makes You Unhealthy and Die Younger!

Is your health impacted by your wealth? Does wealth and income impact the longevity and how healthy you are? Studies now show they do! East Tennessee State University sorted country’s 3,141 counties by their median household income using the income data from the US Census (averaged over the

Desh Kapoor

20 Nov 16 6 min read

Motivation and Personal Development

Smart People are Happier Alone, Rest Need Others for their Happiness

The psychologists explain a lot of our behavior by linking it to how our ancestors, the early homo sapiens lived and how they adapted to the environment. Many of our traits – most famous being “Fight or Flight” – presumably comes from there. Smart People are Happier Alone, Rest Need Others for

Desh Kapoor

18 Nov 16 3 min read

Islam

The Deeper Fight between Human and Islamic Identities

Even before anyone had showed himself on the door, Bella – our lovely dog – started barking. If that moment someone had asked her as to what she experiences in her vicinity, she would have named that friend of mine as well. Had I been asked the same question, I couldn’t

Desh Kapoor

30 Oct 16 4 min read

Special Stories

55 Quranic Verses that Establish the Islamic Path of Genocide and Terror

The greatest strife in world today is the specter and blot of Islamic terror. Islamic hordes of ISIS and Jehadis of Al Qaeda and the many terror organizations that are backed, funded and spawned by Pakistan, Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia (to name a few) kill in thousands every year!

Desh Kapoor

29 Oct 16 16 min read

Inspiration

Life Lessons from an 80 Year Old Who Became the Hottest Guy on Catwalk

Are you scared of how you will lose everything and will have to start again? Starting from scratch is the nightmare of many in the world. But there are some who have done it time and time again by reinventing themselves. Life Lessons from an 80 Year Old Who Became

Desh Kapoor

02 Oct 16 2 min read

Religion

Why Quran’s Surah Al-Maidah verse ‘Kill One, You Kill Humanity’ is misrepresented

A lot has been said in the media and repeated by many so-called educated and moderate Muslims – specially in India – about the peaceful nature of Quran and Islamic ideology via one phrase picked selectively from the Surah Al-Maidah. That phrase is “If you kill one human being, it is as

Desh Kapoor

17 Apr 16 6 min read

Religion

3 Fundamental Truths of Islamic Terror that No One Wants to Talk About

At the Nuclear Summit in Washington DC, Indian PM Modi put forward three important features of terrorism. They are: (1) Use of Extreme Violence as Theater, (2) Terrorist isn’t living in a cave, but in city with a computer or smartphone, and (3) State Actors working with nuclear traffickets

Desh Kapoor

03 Apr 16 9 min read

Achievement and Leadership

The Amazing Living Bridges of Meghalaya

Meghalaya is a state which has the highest amount of rainfall in the world. Cherrapunji holds a world record of the highest recorded rainfall. In such a place, rivers are aplenty. And trees as well. When the entire land is crisscrossed with rivers – how do you build so many strong

Desh Kapoor

22 Dec 12 3 min read

Special Stories

Sat Sri Akal: Invoking the Fighting Spirit entrenched in Sacrifice for the Infinite

The beauty of Sikhism is that the teachings of the Gurus is profound and yet simple. The problem anyone trying to walk this path is that one cannot find something “Spiritually interesting” unless it also comes across as profound. So, one tries to make things profoundly complex to give it

Desh Kapoor

28 Nov 11 3 min read

Special Stories

Two-n-Half Hours @ Super Specialty Hospital

This is my first hand experience at one of the most reputed and famous Super Specialty Chain of Hospitals in Hyderabad. The story began when I called their OP for an appointment. Upon approaching the OP for an appointment, they refused stating that, the clients or patients are met on

Desh Kapoor

22 Feb 11 3 min read

Sciences

Ancient Hindu Science and the effect on the world – II

(continued from Ancient Hindu Science and the effect on the world – I [https://www.drishtikone.com/ancient-hindu-science-and-effect-world-i]) Vedantic philosophy or Hindu Scientific ways experienced and found millennia back and document many centuries ago, also became the basis of the greatest modern scientific discoveries. How Ancient Hindu science impacted greatest modern

Desh Kapoor

21 Jun 10 9 min read

Special Stories

Ancient Hindu Science and the effect on the world – I

Upto 15% of the entire disease in mankind is related to mental illness, according to the WHO. The brain gamma-aminobutyric (GABA) (the brain’s primary inhibitory neurotransmitter) level of the brain is the major contributor to the mental disorders. Disorders like Depression and anxiety disorders are linked to lower GABA

Desh Kapoor

21 Jun 10 20 min read

Special Stories

Terrorism and Violence: How it gets fuzzied by Moralistic Spiritual nonsense

There is a discussion going on [http://www.facebook.com/drishtikone?ref=profile#!/drishtikone?v=wall&story_fbid=118457094851758] my facebook page which is interesting and insightful for me. The story I posted was of the failed terror attack at Times Square and commented as to how poverty or assimilatio

Desh Kapoor

12 May 10 3 min read

India

Activism of Indian Courts on Marriage and Religion

Marriage is a strange thing. And the way the courts have been deciding recently in India, they seem to be doing a lot more activism than citizens of other countries may allow. Here are some of the interesting decisions that the Indian Courts and the Government have recently taken which

Desh Kapoor

11 May 10 3 min read

Special Stories

The Great Yoga Debate: Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. Aseem Shukla

There are three law students from the same class studying for a bar exam. Two buy the popular guide books and study them completely (end-to-end) while the third just goes back to his class notes and reads them well again and doesn’t indulge in buying any guides or books.

Desh Kapoor

07 May 10 8 min read

India

How Pakistan set up Jihad and Terror in Afghanistan and Used it Globally

A lot has been said about Afghanistan, Taliban, Russia and how Pakistan has “sacrificed” there. How Taliban beat the Soviets et al. Sometimes it is important to go deep into history and facts and know the truth. This is one attempt to do so. “We used them to the Hilt’

Desh Kapoor

05 Dec 09 27 min read

History

How India got its Independence – The Real Story

Utpal Dutt, the actor who played comedian in one of most memorable role in Hindi Cinema in Golmaal, was arrested on December 27, 1965 by the Government of West Bengal under the Preventive Detention Act. The Government of Bengal and India feared he was “subversive”. Why? Because he wrote a

Desh Kapoor

14 Oct 09 5 min read

History

Racial Genocides, Aryan Racism and the Aryan Invasion Theory

The development of the racialist theory of the superiority of the Aryan “master” race is often attributed to Joseph Arthur de Gobineau, a French aristocrat and novelist and “Father of modern Racial Demography”. He did so in his book An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853–1855)

Desh Kapoor

11 Oct 09 8 min read

Sciences

Creation is a Vibration

In 1687, Newton published Principia where he laid the foundations of Gravity, which explained how the planets stayed in their orbits and large bodies work. Five years later, a Cambridge philospher Richard Bentley asked him a very innocuous question that hit at the root of Newton’s discovery. Bentley wrote

Desh Kapoor

14 Sep 09 6 min read

History

Krishna and Mahabharat: Historical reality

Dr Manish Pandit, a nuclear medicine physician from UK is making a movie on Krishna as a historic figure. Pandit has based his movie on dates and timelines coming out of scientific based research by credible evidence based on Archeology, Astronomy and Linguistics, apart from Oral evidence from Indian tradition.

Desh Kapoor

30 Aug 09 13 min read

India

The Betrayal of Tashkent in 1965

Lal Bahadur Shastri died under very unusual circumstances in Tashkent and the reason why he was there in the first place are nothing short of shocking!! In the 1965 War against Pakistan, after India had won the Haji Pir and Tithwa – two important peaks, and made considerable gains, India went

Desh Kapoor

13 Jul 09 11 min read

Religion

Shahrukh Khan’s Comment on Mohammad and Al Taqiyyah

Shahrukh Khan is in trouble. Because the Muslims believe that he said something insulting about the Prophet. He was asked by a magazine “According to you who is the most impressive figure in history?” He replied “There are lots of them, some negative ones like Hitler, Napoleon, Winston Churchill and

Desh Kapoor

19 Jun 09 6 min read

India

Pseudo-Secularism and Teesta Setalvad's Cooking up Skills

59 Hindus were returning from a pilgrimage in Ayodhya when on February 27, 2002; their train bogies were set to fire. Men – young and old, women, and children were burnt alive. Teesta Setalvad a self-proclaimed Secularist told Washingon Post (published on February 28, 2002). The people were returning from Ayodhya

Desh Kapoor

27 Apr 09 6 min read

Politics

The Injustice of Secularism in India

For a long time now, I have repeatedly raised the question of 1984 Sikh Massacres and the complete silence from the Indian Pseudo-secular burgeosie. These same people jump on anything Hindu – from Muthalik to Varun Gandhi – to push the blame on them for all that goes wrong with Muslims; but

Desh Kapoor

02 Apr 09 5 min read

Pakistan

Zaid Hamid and the Hallucinating Pakistani minds

A commenter [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/drishtikone/?q=blog/barkha-dutt-and-ndtv-terrorists-dream-come-true#comment-9253] had mentioned this guy called Zaid Hamid. I have been listening to his discussions which follow a unique pattern that I have ONLY seen in the analysts of Pakistan: Delusionary, Inflammatory, Provocative and downright Hallucinating. Here he talks

Desh Kapoor

02 Dec 08 4 min read

India

Mumbai Attacks: A Complete Analysis of What was, is and what should be!

> William Webster, who had come from the FBI to become the new CIA director after Bill Casey’s death in May 1987, vowed to straighten out an agency tarnished by its reputation for deceit. Webster turned up the temperature on Pakistan by showing Bhutto exactly what the US knew about

Desh Kapoor

30 Nov 08 17 min read

India

Barkha Dutt and NDTV: A Terrorist’s DREAM COME TRUE

Note: According to latest understanding [https://www.drishtikone.com/blessing-traffic-jam-and-how-indian-media-helped-terrorists-planning-mumbai/] , intelligence based on media reports were fed to the terrorists by “field officers” so they stayed a step ahead of the Indian forces. Barkha Dutt and NDTV is a terrorist’s DREAM COME TRUE!! They must really love having Barkha

Desh Kapoor

28 Nov 08 1 min read

India

Mumbai Attacks are NOT "Terrorism" but DECLARATION OF WAR against INDIAN STATE (#Mumbai)

Around 30-50 odd people land on our shores from a foreign land.. dropped by a ship with ammunition, night vision equipment and satellite phones… and attack our largest city. I am trying to understand HOW is this different from a FORMAL DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST India?? If Pakistan or any

Desh Kapoor

27 Nov 08 2 min read

Special Stories

Female Body mutilation practices and her Sexuality

A woman’s body has been a playground throughout the human history. And still man cannot get enough and justifies everything in the name of some ideology – whether it is religious, cultural or modernity. The effect is always the same – mutilation of body parts. Here are some of the well

Desh Kapoor

23 Nov 08 3 min read

India

India's fights and intolerance and the way forward

India is passing through a very tough time in terms of its national integrity. Indian Mujahideen – the indigenous Islamic group – has tried its best to wreck as much as it could with a very blatant attitude. And they tried their best to hire the top techies – Yahoo software employee – to

Desh Kapoor

07 Nov 08 4 min read

Creative

Voyeur MF Hussain's "Bharat Mata" is a "work of art": says Indian Supreme Court

This week in a landmark judgment [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Bharat_Mata_a_work_of_art_SC/articleshow/3459623.cms] of its sort, the Supreme Court termed MF Hussain’s painting of “Bharat Mata” (or Indian Goddess) in nude as a “work of art”. The 92 year old painter

Desh Kapoor

10 Sep 08 1 min read

India

Why is Kashmir Important?

Kashmir is a major problem between India and Pakistan. Most often the cloak on every issue and problem between states is sewn from the thread of emotions and “principles” for public consumption. Actually, and in hard reality it is rarely so. At the expense of sounding non-chalant, let me state

Desh Kapoor

29 Aug 08 5 min read

India

Victims of an imaginary virtue cannot be expected to be its Guardians!

The Indian Army, which should have ensured the safety and return of Pandits, was busy in un-necessary and fruitless tit-for-tats with these inhuman terrorists. Enough water has flown below the bridge, while the sensitivities of Kashmiri Muslims have been front page news, and actions, which have virtually hijacked the agenda

Desh Kapoor

24 Aug 08 2 min read

India

Polyandrous family customs in India

Note: Given the extremely unfavorable sex ratios that one is seeing in India today – as families keep killing unborn daughters and girls, the day is not far when some believe that Polyandry will become pervasive in the society as a matter of norm and social compulsion!! A lot of cultures

Desh Kapoor

23 Aug 08 3 min read

India

Narendra Modi for Prime Minister

Since 2002, when the Gujarat riots broke out, a lot of things have happened. Modi was a villain in my eyes as well at that time. But over the years, pragmatism and realism has taken over. I have had this firm realization now that words like Secularism and Communalism have

Desh Kapoor

20 Aug 08 5 min read

Philosophy

Was Proto-Indo-European religion really the Vedic religion?

Budh in the Celtic languages is the name given to Mercury meaning wise [http://cura.free.fr/xv/11ellis1.html#Ref13]. Guess where have you heard that before? > Boudi and the stem budh appear in all the Celtic languages. It means – all victorious, gift of teaching, accomplished, exulted, virtue and

Desh Kapoor

23 Jul 08 5 min read

India

Lies and falsehoods on Amarnath

This is from Wikipedia. If you have any other source and evidence that this is not correct, please let me know. But for me, it is not at all surprising that the Kashmiri separatist Muslims and their secular friends in India are creating use-less myths about Amarnath Shrine. It is

Desh Kapoor

09 Jul 08 6 min read

India

Peace loving and violence: a dialogue of Kashmiris

“Stop talking of Kashmir, if you do not know what happens there!” burst out Khurshid. He had been listening to the self gloating talk of four guys who had been praising how the Indian Government was handling the situation. He had seen how his younger brother’s bullet ridden body

Desh Kapoor

17 Jun 08 3 min read

India

Future of Pakistan and India

In an article written in July 2001, Kuldip Nayar describes how after the rout of Pakistan in the 1965 war – a war that was started by Bhutto as per Ayub Khan himself – Lal Bahadur Shastri did all he could to get peace with Pakistan. Bhutto never wanted that to happen

Desh Kapoor

23 May 08 5 min read

Creative

Samar and Radha: A Love Story.

She was doe-eyed and long-haired. As she walked down the aisle of the library, Samardeep looked up. His eyes melted into the beautiful tresses of Radha. She was not the most petite one, but her eyes were poetic and seemed to hold mysteries of yonder. He seemed to have suddenly

Desh Kapoor

03 May 08 8 min read

India

Perfidy of Indian Leftists in Bengal: scenes of genocide in Nandigram on video

The note accompanying this movie says this: > This film is based on original video footage of 14 march killings of peasents, in Nandigram, West bengal. CPM, a left party Government is responsible for this. Spacial thanks to Bengali poet Wishwajeet sen for providing this film. Now, look at how the

Desh Kapoor

15 Apr 08 1 min read

India

A Hole-in-the-wall Question Box changes lives in Rural India

– How many zeroes are there in 90,000? – What’s the square root of 25? – I’ve come 10th in my class for the past two years. What have I done wrong? – What’s the price of pumpkin in Ghaziabad? – Who killed Mahatma Gandhi? – What’s the price of milk

Desh Kapoor

31 Mar 08 2 min read

India

How Indian Communists committed Acts of Treason against the Indian state and why they should be banned from any seat of power

I have already talked of the role of Traitors played by Indian Communists [https://www.drishtikone.com/indian-traitors-communists-look-other-way-while-china-kills-tibetans/] in the Indian history since independence. If you have to look for details – the declassified CIA documents that go into the relationships that the Indian communists developed with the Russians and Chinese

Desh Kapoor

19 Mar 08 3 min read

Special Stories

Was Krishna's Gita a Rebellion of his times?

Lord Krishna has been known as the greatest Vedic philosopher of his time, probably of all times. Vedas [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas] – four as they are named in modern times – are said to be the scriptural authorities for the Hindus. They represent the eternal knowledge captured in words.

Desh Kapoor

04 Mar 08 4 min read

Special Stories

Pope and Sikh leaders drama and the mockery of spiritual fearlessness`

A fearful mind cannot be a spiritual mind. A mind where fear exists, will not be able to approach the Truth. Such a mind, because of its aversion to the object of fear will create new camouflages.. new make-beliefs. Such running away from the the basic normal reality of life

Desh Kapoor

03 Mar 08 2 min read

India

Correlation between Women and a Country's Prosperity

One of my close friends – Vish – has written this based on an earlier post on drishtikone. I think it is very informative and analyzes our poverty in context of our age old wisdom in the Vedas. ==================== Desh posted a story [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/drishtikone/?q=shame_on_us_

Desh Kapoor

16 Aug 07 1 min read

Special Stories

Indian Rupee should go back to Rs 45/USD

by Dr. Sanjay Goel A poverty-stricken country has to manage inflation as a priority but growth can not be undermined. To keep the inflation low, the government has been raising the interest rates and lowering the exchage rates. Now, the demand is being forced downwards, and supply is being glutted

Desh Kapoor

27 Jul 07 2 min read

Economics

Two Millennia of India’s Economic Journey: 1st Century to 2000 AD

India is a poor country today. But was it always like that? If you look at the GDP figures [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_past_GDP_%28PPP%29] (courtesy: Wikipedia) of India vs the rest of the world – the journey is extremely interesting. For most part

Desh Kapoor

13 May 07 4 min read

Business

The Eight China Wars the World Should Know About (Special Guest Article by Peter Navarro)

This article for Drishtikone by Peter Navarro, the author of “The Coming China Wars” gives a flavor of the detailed analysis of the effect of China on the world at large in the coming decades in his book. I strongly recommend the book to read about each “War” in detail!

Desh Kapoor

12 Feb 07 9 min read

Sciences

Eternal Illusion and How Observer Creates His Own Reality

In October of 1927, Born, Dirac, Heisenberg, Pauli, and Bohr came together and expounded as well as accepted “an” interpretation of the new quantum world that was reeling in the aftermath of Schrodinger’s Wave Collapse experiments. They called it the Copenhagen Interpretation. With the collapse of the wave wherein

Desh Kapoor

30 Nov 06 10 min read

Asia

How RAW Checkmated ISI, LTTE and Dawood in their Plan to Kill Sheikh Hasina!

It seems the D-company [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1678918.cms] of Dubai and Karachi fame is not entirely done. While Indian intelligence and the rest of the world concentrates on Pakistan and Dubai – which Dawood called his home – he has been deftly but surely moving onto newer pastures in

Desh Kapoor

25 Jun 06 6 min read

History

Revolutionaries of One Era are Moderates of Another!

“Revolutionaries of one era are moderates of another” …… was how Bal Gangadhar Tilak assessed Dadabhai Naoroji’s opposition to his “Swaraj is my Birth-right!”. Little realizing that one day he himself will “live” his own principle! July 30, 1920: Tilak Dies Aug 1, 1920: Gandhi launches Non Cooperation Movement Is

Desh Kapoor

15 Nov 05 1 min read

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