by Nitin Mehta | Jan 20, 2021 | Articles
George Coedes (1886-1969) French scholar of Southeast Asian Archaeology and History referred to India’s influence on Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Cambodia and Vietnam as the ‘indianisation’ of these countries. In this article I am...
by Nitin Mehta | Jan 20, 2021 | Articles
Sylvian Levi French orientalist and indologist 1863 to 1935: “The ancient Hindus of yore were not simply spiritual people, always busy with mystical problems and never trouble themselves with the questions of ‘this world’… India also has its...
by Nitin Mehta | Jan 18, 2021 | Musings
In his interview Amartya Sen betrays his inability to tolerate any political ideology which differs from his. It is ironic then that he criticises the idea of Solitarism, which believes that human beings have one principal identity. For Sen and many left leaning...
by Nitin Mehta | Jan 7, 2021 | Letters
Plagues and other deadly pandemics have ravaged the human race for thousands of years. However for the last 70 years the Western world also known as the first world has been relatively free of major disasters. The poorer nations suffered the double whammy of...
by Nitin Mehta | Jan 5, 2021 | Articles
Next to the residence of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom number 10 Downing Street is the residence of the second most powerful politician in the country. He is a young man named Rishi Sunak. He is the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In his brief time in the...
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