The World is at precipitous moment with Islamist terrorism, rising inequality, prospect of a new cold war , realistic horrors of nuclear and biological warfare and ecological disaster facing the world. Writer’s take on what could trigger a new devastating global war in twenty first century.
India’s historical lockdown is now in its sixth week. It all started with an appeal from the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi to observe 14-hours voluntary Janta curfew on 22nd March 2020. Further, on 24 March 2020, the Prime Minister ordered the nationwide lockdown for 21 days, affecting 1.3 billion people of India. Â As India was … Read more
The Writer visited Kashmir in Winters of 2018 and it has been etched in his memory forever. Writer considers himself fortunate to have visited the valley just before the present Modi government repealed the controversial Article 370 from Kashmir and placed Kashmir under lockdown since 5 August 2019. Valley has been under lockdown ever since and while the entire world, in a bitter ironical turn of events, is under lockdown itself, writer saw opportune time to re-live his valley experience. This travelogue is a 3-part series, and this is the first part of the series.