(The review was originally published by Chintan – India Foundation Blogs on July 2, 2023. Views expressed are personal.) Why are America and China lunging over Taiwan? Why are they threatening each other with war over that country? Among several answers is a company called TSMC – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation. This Hsinchu based semiconductor […]
(The review was originally published by Chintan – India Foundation Blogs on February 17, 2023. Views expressed are personal.) Thirty years ago, in 1992, when some Hindu youths pulled down the Babri structure in Ayodhya, the liberal world was livid. Yet nowadays their own kith and kin in European capitals and American university campuses are […]
(The review was originally published by Chintan – India Foundation Blogs on December 5, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) Diplomacy generally means sophistication and statesmanship. If diplomacy were to be identified with its antonyms like impoliteness and rudeness, one country that comes to mind is China. Over the years, its diplomats have acquired a reputation […]
(The review was originally published by Chintan – India Foundation Blogs on October 14, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) Are democracies falling apart? Is there a “democratic recession” growing in the world as chronicled by the renowned American political sociologist Larry Diamond? A narrative to this effect has been raging among the liberal intelligentsia ever […]
(The review was originally published by Chintan – India Foundation Blogs on June 21, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) Francis Fukuyama is one of the West’s most renowned public intellectuals with profound liberal credentials. Once acquired name and notoriety for his theory of the “End of History”, Fukuyama traveled a distance in the last three […]
(The review was originally published by Chintan – India Foundation Blogs on June 9, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) Do identities matter? A debate has been raging in the Western world for several decades now. While classical liberalism rejected group identities in the name of individual liberty and freedom, neo-liberals tend to emphasize identities of […]
(The review was originally published by Chintan – India Foundation Blogs on May 7, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) The Covid pandemic has highlighted one important probability – mankind’s ability to self-destruct. The virus, that had caused SARS two decades ago or Covid two years ago, was suspected to be a byproduct of human experimentation […]
(The review was originally published by Chintan-India Foundation Blogs on March 10, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) In their book “The art of bitfulness – Keeping calm in the digital world”, Nandan Nilekani and Tanuj Bhojwani express concern over how the tools that “we shaped” – the digital technology – are “shaping us” today. In […]
(The review was originally published by Chintan – India Foundation Blogs on February 9, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) In the present milieu, it is a challenge to stand up for the traditional idea of nationalism. Nationalism has been converted into a pejorative idea by the liberal elite in the West after the 2nd World […]
(The Book Review was originally published by Chintan – India Foundation Blogs on January 15, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) In July last year, China conducted the successful test-firing of a nuclear-capable ‘hypersonic’ missile, which, running at seven times the speed of sound, had entered low-earth orbit, circled the entire globe, and returned to hit […]
