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The Khalistan nightmare

 After several postponements, the "Punjab Referendum Commission has announced to hold the "Punjab Independence Referendum on October 31, 2021.  The Commission has been appointed...

Did India invade Kashmir?

Pakistan has decided to observe 27th October as Black Day. This was the day when, according to India’s version, it invaded the disputed Jammu...

The End of the West in Self-annihilation (Intentionality, Directionality and Outcome)

A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.-Definition of Health, Preamble of the World...

Formation of the Political West -from the 18th century till today

The 18th – a century of change In 1776 the American colonists threw off the British yoke and many people proclaimed with satisfaction, if somewhat...

The YCCC and How It Changed the Future of South Africa

This was the pre-apartheid education that we received when we were still at school. I was 13, 14 years of age at the time...

How India utilised the AFSPA to suppress freedom movements?

The freedom movements in the volatile north-eastern state of India predate the Partition. The Englishman realised importance of the North East as it could...

Angela Merkel For History

If any speech by (still) German Chancellor Angela Merkel will go down in history, it will be the one she gave at the ceremony...

The failure of the great games in Afghanistan from the 19th century to the present day

Whenever great powers have tried to make Afghanistan a colony, they have always been defeated. British imperialism and its “civilising mission” towards backward (and...

Of Friends And Countries

"The bird, a nest; the spider, a web; man, friendship," William Blake reminded us in 1790.  Much earlier, Confucius warned in the 5th century...

Without roots, no future. Germans and Russians – Decoupling ideologies

Krieg ist das Ergebnis einer falschen Politik und sein Erbe Not und Elend.1 (From Gestrüpp meines Lebens, a diary kept by my grandfather, Helmuth...

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