Middle Eastern Studies are a multicomplex research discipline devoted to bettering knowledge and understanding of different cultures, nationalities, and complexities of the world’s region conventionally known as the Middle East. Its geography stretches from Egypt to Iran and from Syria to Yemen. In principle, the crucial mark of the region is the predominan...
As soon as he decided to go to the Himalayas, Senkuttuvan got a letter signed by the Chola and Pandya kings to make his trip appear as a united Tamil effort. His previous trip to the North was a pilgrimage to the river Ganga in which his mother joined him to take a sacred bath in the river. At that time, Senkuttuvan was confronted by the kings of that region...
Silappadhikāram describes certain important historical events that offer a watershed year to demarcate pre-history of Bharat from the Common Era. The text was written by the younger brother of the Chera King Senkuttuvan during whose period the events of Silappadhikāram occurred. A crucial information about the Chera king being a contemporary of a Śatakarṇi o...
DARPA Neurologist and Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program at Georgetown University, Washington DC, Dr. James Giordano, who is also a weapons expert, started his presentation at West Point NY Military Academy by saying, “The brain is and will be the 21st Century battlefield. End of story.” DARPA stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a Pen...
The Ethiopian News Agency recently reported that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told members of parliament in a televised program that their country’s “access to the sea is a matter of existence”. This latest statement comes several months after he reportedly said earlier this summer that “Ethiopia will secure direct access to a port – peacefully or, if necessary...
There is textual reference that Tamil existed side by side with Sanskrit.[4] This reference substantiates that Sanskrit was known to Skanda at that time (to facilitate the performance of Vedic Homa). The idea of simultaneous existence of Sanskrit and Tamil is very old - something found in old texts and also coming by tradition. The text ‘Tiruvilayādal Purāna...
With Mahābhārata stating in no uncertain terms, through the words of Mārkaṇḍeya, that Skanda formalised the wedding of Svāhā with Agni and declaring the starting of Homa thereon, we are able to identify the chronological evolution of Vedic culture from Skanda. The significant hint is the birth of Viśākha from Skanda at the time of terrible lightening which w...
Earlier we read from Vāyu Purāna, that Pāvaka, Pavamāna and Śuci were born to Svāhā and Agni. But even before the marriage, we come across another account of the union between Svāhā and Agni known by the name Adbhuta, giving birth to Skanda. The foremost inference is that Skanda was born before the marriage of Svāhā and Agni but at a time Svāhā started cohab...
Vedas are timeless, but Vedic culture has a time of genesis. Since Agni upāsanā is the basis of the Vedic culture, the time period of the use of Agni for worship marks the beginning of the Vedic culture. Vedic Homa which is fundamental to Vedic culture was mis-interpreted by the Aryan Migration Theorists claiming that the Homa was brought to Bhārat by the ‘A...
The NeoCons’ agenda is not to “win the war” but to engineer the breakup of sovereign nation states, destroy their culture and national identity, derogate fundamental values and human rights. The strategic objective is to trigger political and social chaos, engineer the collapse of national economies, appropriate the countries’ wealth and resources, impoveris...
The modern food system is responsible for making swathes of humanity ill, causing unnecessary suffering and sending many people to an early grave. It is part of a grotesque food-pharma conveyor belt that results in massive profits for the dominant agrifood and pharmaceuticals corporations. Much of the modern food system has been shaped by big agribusiness c...
India’s quest to make peaceful use of nuclear power began in 1954 when a multidisciplinary centre for research and development was set up near Mumbai (then, called Bombay), which later came to be known as the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). The objective of Indian scientists, as formulated by Dr Homi Bhabha and the Indian authorities, was to develop a ...
While COVID-19 was ravaging a locked-down India, on May 12, 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an economic package that he said would be around 10 per cent of India’s more than US $3 trillion GDP. Addressing the nation, he said: “I announce a special economic package today. This will play an important role in the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’ [Campa...
Human beings’ most destructive instincts – survival, anger, fear, despair, and vengeance – dictate Israeli and Palestinian war strategy and policy in the wake of Hamas’ October 7 brutal attack on Israel. The dominance of emotions produces an environment in which one atrocity justifies another and reinforces Israeli and Palestinian demonization of the other. ...
Henry Kissinger is back – at the age of 100. Remarkably, he somehow managed a risky trip to Beijing where he met with senior Chinese leaders. The evident purpose was to offer them guidance on how to treat with Washington so as to avoid the deteriorating Sino-American relations leading to an irremediable collapse. Kissinger is one of the very few American who...
Two New York Democrats, one being NY attorney general Letitia James, a black female helped into office by money from George Soros, who made his billions by manipulating the British pound to the disadvantage of the British population, and the other being NY state judge Arthur Engoron, a Donald Trump hater who was put in office by Trump-hating NY Democrats, ha...
The September Perspectives presents a cross section of major events. Sri Lanka continues to be hauled before the UNHRC session for accountability of its poor human record, a standard feature since 2010. This year is no exception. International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff talks concluded its talks but disappointed the government by deferring the release of the ...
Throughout recent history, the perceived weapon of choice for a terrorist (or freedom fighter, depending on one’s perspective) has been an AK-47 assault rifle. Today, in the aftermath of the so-called post-9/11 “global war on terror,” it’s not uncommon to see such fighters with a Glock 9mm pistol, or a Colt M4 carbine. These are weapons paid-for by the US ta...
Compared to the previous conferences, the Delhi conference can be considered successful in moving, without a bias, towards strong solutions to global problems, particularly those of the developing world The speciality of this G20 summit was that India talked about protecting the interests of the Global South from the very...
Far from being in favour of Palestine like many in the Alt-Media Community wrongly think, Russia believes that it’s just as much to blame for everything as Israel is. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova released the following statement on Saturday in response to the latest Israeli-Hamas war that broke out after the group’s large-scale sneak ...
Hamas, the Islamist militia that controls Gaza, will likely emerge a victor regardless of how the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting ends. Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel, described by some analysts as the Jewish state’s 9/11, changes the dynamics of Middle Eastern geopolitics. The brutal attack involved prolonged fighting with the Israeli mi...
Hamas launched an unprecedented sneak attack on Israel over the weekend that completely caught the self-professed Jewish State by surprise after all its security systems unexpectedly failed at the same time. The border wall was breached, some military bases were captured, and dozens of hostages were taken back to Gaza. Israel responded by launching airstrike...
One year ago, on this day [Oct. 2, 2022-ed], the Iranian forces indiscriminately opened fire at peaceful protesters in Zahedan – the capital of Iranian-Occupied Balochistan – and killed more than a hundred people in the space of a few minutes. For us Baloch it was another reminder that if and when the Baloch try to raise their voice for justice, freedom and ...
Americans have become masters in the art of memory management. Think about the tragic shock of Vietnam. The country made a systematic effort to forget – to forget everything about Vietnam. Understandably; it was ugly – on every count. Textbooks in American history gave it little space; teachers downplayed it; television soon disregarded it as retro. We sough...
The United States is being defeated in Ukraine. One could say that it is facing defeat - or, more starkly, that it is staring defeat in the face. Neither formulation is appropriate, though. The U.S. doesn’t look reality squarely in the eye. We prefer to look at the world through the distorted lenses of our fantasies. We plunge forward on whatever path we’ve ...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban described the Ukrainian Conflict as a “Slavic fraternal war” in comments that he made on Friday [September 29, 2023-ed]. He didn’t elaborate on why he chose that particular phraseology, but his point appears to have been to emphasize the need for others to stop fuelling the flames. This aligns with Budapest’s stance towa...
America’s reputation as “the land of the free” is rooted in the Anglo-Saxon legal and political tradition, not in diversity and multiculturalism. Law as a shield of the people instead of a weapon in the hands of rulers is a British achievement that Britain’s American colonies inherited. It was the accomplishment of a specific ethnicity known as Anglo-Saxon....
Bloomberg’s Pankaj Mishra just published an inflammatory op-ed about how “The West’s India Problem Isn’t Getting Any Easier”, which portrays that country’s growing confidence on the world stage as supposedly being a challenge for the West’s so-called rules-based order. According to him, its government and society are becoming increasingly nationalistic, with...
Meet Sheikh Assim Al-Hakeem, aka Sheikh Awesome, a multilingual, ultra-conservative, and charismatic Saudi cleric. Mr. Al-Hakeem is more than just any Saudi Islamic scholar. An erstwhile Friday prayer imam of a mosque in Jeddah, Mr. Al-Hakeem articulates views that at times align with those of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman but, at others, contradict the r...
The ongoing diplomatic tensions between India and Canada has taken the center stage both in Canada and India. The war of nerves continues without resolution, with a series of tit-for-tat responses. Leaders on both sides appear to have firmed up their stances as the relations between two key democratic countries in the world flounders. At the center of this r...
On 14th September, just a day before the birth anniversary of Karunanidhi’s mentor Annadurai, the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu, M.K. Stalin, tweeted that he has appointed persons from all castes including women to serve as temple priests as part of his Dravidian Model Governance. He wrote, “Despite women's achievements as pilots and astronauts, they were bar...