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'Big Guy' vs. 'Short Guy' & the 'Little Master' - Are "educated" Indians Really That Different & Why?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/15/2012 8:05 AM | Add Comment

Iran Sanctions - Cut Off the World's Nose to Spite Iran's Face?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/31/2012 9:05 AM | Add Comment

Happy New Year to All

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/24/2012 11:30 AM | Add Comment

America in Afghanistan vs. America in Iraq - The Difference is the Key

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/17/2012 9:45 AM | Add Comment

"I Believe Israel Will Attack" - said Senator Feinstein. We Concur

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/10/2012 9:45 AM | Add Comment

Current Afghan Conflagration - Doesn't That Remind You of 1857?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/3/2012 11:34 AM | Add Comment

Rigorous Analysis Or A Manufactured Anti-Indian Thesis by Wharton?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 2/25/2012 9:49 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Avalanches, Nuclear Reactors & Financial Markets - A Complexity Theory View by James Rickards

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/10/2011 9:29 AM | Add Comment

An Eternal Message for Thanksgiving

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 11/26/2011 9:35 AM | Add Comment

From Nehru to Kennedy - The Transformation of President Obama

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 11/26/2011 8:32 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

"The United States Has No Stronger Ally than Australia"

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 11/19/2011 9:28 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

A Contest for Supremacy - China & America in & for Asia

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 11/12/2011 9:05 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Af-Pak - NYT Article that Accepts Facts & Does More?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 11/5/2011 7:35 AM | Add Comment

Happy Diwali & A Prosperous New Year to All

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/29/2011 8:26 AM | Add Comment

Afghanistan - Read this New York Times Article

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/15/2011 7:35 AM | Add Comment

Greatest Acquisition of the 20th Century & Its Impact on the 21st Century

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/8/2011 8:07 AM | Add Comment

The War on Math (& the Future) - Chapter 9 of Mr. Friedman's Book

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/1/2011 8:27 AM | Add Comment

Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Karl Marx, EIC & India

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 9/17/2011 11:41 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Afghanistan - Read These Washington Post Articles

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 9/17/2011 8:34 AM | Add Comment

How Does America Break Out of This Slump? Here's How!

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 9/3/2011 9:56 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (August 27 - September 2)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 9/3/2011 6:50 AM | Add Comment

Second Battle for Indian Independence Begins

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/27/2011 9:31 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

India's Independence Day - A Few Thoughts

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/14/2011 4:14 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Two Feel-Good Stories about India

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/14/2011 2:15 PM | Add Comment

The Plunder of Bengal - A Lesson for "Independent" India

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/14/2011 1:15 PM | Add Comment

Are the Ghilzai Taking Control Again?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/30/2011 10:29 AM | Add Comment

Hitler & Churchill - Birds of a Similar Feather?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/15/2011 10:05 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Churchill's Secret War - II - A Book Review

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/9/2011 9:06 AM | Add Comment

Against the Soviets, Against the Americans & Now Against the Pakistanis - Af-Pak Reality

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/9/2011 7:48 AM | Add Comment

Roosevelt vs. Churchill - Churchill's Secret War - I

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/2/2011 7:15 AM | Add Comment

America in Af-Pak - Will The 3rd Time Be After A Nightmare?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/25/2011 9:18 AM | Add Comment

A Model For Today's Afghan Conflict - The 1689 - 1707 War?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/9/2011 8:55 AM | Add Comment

Tajikistan Cedes Land to China - A Step Towards Af-Kash-Bet?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/15/2011 8:07 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Read this Article by Ambassador Blackwill about Pashtunistan & Afghanistan

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/8/2011 7:52 AM | Add Comment

Not Cast In Caste - An Important Work from a Sindhu Foundation

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/18/2010 9:46 AM | Add Comment

If You Can Pronounce "Sonia", Why Do You Call Us "Hindu"?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/18/2010 6:46 AM | Add Comment

An Immortal Story For The Ages

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/18/2010 6:33 AM | Add Comment

The Largest Battle of the 18th Century - The Saga of Mastaani & The Opening for the British

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/11/2010 8:26 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Two Great Men of the Indo-Afghan Continuum

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/4/2010 8:04 AM | Add Comment

Who are the Real Talebani, Pakistanis or Pakhtuns? -The Legacies of Aurangzeb & Frontier Gandhi

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 11/27/2010 8:47 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Yardley of the New York Times - Who is the Man in this huge Portrait?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 11/13/2010 9:40 AM | Add Comment

New York Times vs. Washington Post - 5 - Dr. Bernanke, President Obama, Prime Minister Singh

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 11/13/2010 8:35 AM | Add Comment

Burma - Where China & India Collide - From "Monsoon" by Robert Kaplan

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 11/6/2010 6:04 AM | Add Comment

China Expands Vertically, India Horizontally - Chapter I of "Monsoon" by Robert Kaplan

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/30/2010 7:33 AM | Add Comment

Baltistan - Where the World Meets for the Next Geo-Crisis?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 9/11/2010 7:42 AM | Add Comment

Did Sixty Minutes Engage in Deception in their Segment about Afghanistan?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/7/2010 6:45 AM | Add Comment

Maureen Dowd Gets It But David Ignatius Does Not?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/31/2010 7:56 AM | Add Comment

Run, Don't Walk to This Article by Bruce Riedel

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/31/2010 7:03 AM | Add Comment

The Long Term Ramifications of President Obama's Middle East Policy

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/12/2010 7:32 AM | Add Comment

The Concept of Na-Pak or Im-Pure - The Real Problem of Pakistan

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/13/2010 7:50 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

The Ignatius Opinion - A Virtual Blueprint of Convenient, Myopic & Wrong Analysis about Af-Pak

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 2/13/2010 8:45 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Cultural & Religious Defamation Tacitly Accepted By New York Times Editors?- Our Perspectives

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/23/2010 8:43 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The Battle For Afghanistan, Kashmir & Tibet - A Post-American Withdrawal View Of The Region

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/5/2009 8:14 AM | Add Comment

Happy Diwali & Happy New Year

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/17/2009 8:14 AM | Add Comment

Ramayan 3392 AD - India comics in Los Angeles

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/17/2009 7:27 AM | Add Comment

Afghanistan - It's Strategic Importance To America

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/10/2009 8:52 AM | Add Comment

Instinctive Intelligence vs. Analytical Intelligence

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/3/2009 9:32 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Et Tu Stratfor? - American Myth About Afghanistan - From Alexander To The Soviets

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 10/3/2009 8:07 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Never Forget

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 9/12/2009 8:00 AM | Add Comment

Manmohan Singh, Atal Behari Vajpayee & Ronald Reagan

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/1/2009 8:05 AM | Add Comment

India Special on Fox Business and Related Thoughts about Fox Business & CNBC

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/1/2009 7:34 AM | Add Comment

The 10-Year Anniversary of July 26, 1999 - A Momentous Event at The Top of the World

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/25/2009 1:16 PM | Add Comment

Indian Government's Partisan, Unpatriotic Behavior - So Says Hindustan Times & We Concur

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/25/2009 12:19 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Is Barak Obama America's Jawaharlal Nehru?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/18/2009 9:00 AM | Add Comment

America & China Military Competition - Read these WSJ and Foreign Affairs Articles

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/18/2009 7:57 AM | Add Comment

When America Withdraws from Iraq? What Then?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/18/2009 7:12 AM | Add Comment

Indian Economy - Is It Sonia Gandhi's Or Is It Manmohan Singh's? Is The 2009 Election 1971 Redux?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/11/2009 8:47 AM | Add Comment

Iraq & Tibet - The Difference Between America & China

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/4/2009 8:27 AM | Add Comment

The China-India Border Brawl - Read This Wall Street Journal Article

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/27/2009 10:45 AM | Add Comment

In Iran, Gandhism Comes of Age? - A WSJ Article That Neither Gets Gandhi Nor Iran

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/27/2009 9:41 AM | Add Comment

Situation In Iran - More Questions Than Answers

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/20/2009 9:40 AM | Add Comment

Bernanke-Greenspan, Bush-Obama & An 18th Century French Diplomat

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/20/2009 8:36 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Cricket Lets In The Rabble - Anglophilia or a Tinge of Racism? - Our opinion of a Wall Street Journal article

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/20/2009 7:25 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Why India Gets Attacked By Terrorists And America Does Not?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/25/2009 8:03 AM | Add Comment

China-India Border Tensions Move From The Military To The Economic Arena

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/18/2009 8:36 AM | Add Comment

When Will Pashtun Taliban Win Pakistani Panjab? What Does The Obama Administration Think?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/18/2009 7:43 AM | Add Comment

Dhoni Captains The World - When Will An Indian Leader Do That?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/10/2009 11:05 AM | Add Comment

When Did Indian Society Lose It's Attitude? Our Answer Might Surprise You

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/10/2009 10:39 AM | Add Comment

If Attock Falls, Can Lahore Be Far Behind?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/4/2009 6:02 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Do Wolves Attack Sheep?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/28/2009 8:22 AM | Add Comment

Lessons from England's Legacy - Differences Between Lincoln's America, Nehru's India and Mao-Zhou's China

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 9/27/2008 8:10 AM | Add Comment

The Karna-Arjun Battle in The Maha-Bharat - Beyond Adjectives

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 9/20/2008 7:58 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Labor Day - Celebration Bollywood Style

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/30/2008 7:28 AM | Add Comment

"Today's Breakaway Bites Back Later" - Lessons for China and India from Russia's Georgia War

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/23/2008 8:00 AM | Add Comment

Gadar - A unique love story in the midst of the Greatest Human Migration in History

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/16/2008 9:30 AM | Add Comment

Differences Between China and India - Our Perspectives

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/16/2008 9:11 AM | Add Comment

Singh is Kingg - Snoop Dogg sure picked a winner

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/16/2008 8:12 AM | Add Comment

Afghanistan-Pakistan - Will the Sins of England be visited Upon America?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/9/2008 10:07 AM | Add Comment

Attock - If you have not heard of Attock, Read this Article

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/9/2008 9:50 AM | Add Comment

Why are they called "Stans" and why is "Pak-i-Stan" unique?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/9/2008 9:17 AM | Add Comment

Don't you wish Donald Rumsfeld knew Bollywood and Cricket? - You will after reading this Article

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/9/2008 8:47 AM | Add Comment

The "Bhramar" or "Bhawara" ("Bee") in Bollywood

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/2/2008 7:45 AM | Add Comment

When I feel Life has been Unfair to me, I think of Karna

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/19/2008 2:45 PM | Add Comment

MahaBharat - World, India, Karna-Arjun, Bollywood

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/19/2008 2:00 PM | Add Comment

The Greatest Publishing Project of Recent Years - Conceived and Implemented in America

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/28/2008 9:20 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

From the Tang Dynasty in 5th century CE to 21st Century Beijing - A Tradition of Sanskrut Scholarship

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/28/2008 9:01 AM | Add Comment

Bollywood - Convergence of Sanskrut, Persian and English

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/21/2008 11:00 AM | Add Comment

Three Globally Dominant Languages in World History

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/21/2008 10:30 AM | Add Comment

Hindi Films of the 1950s in Greece - The Latest Chapter of a Long Dialogue - By Helen Abadzi

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/31/2008 2:48 PM | Add Comment

India & Greece - A long, deep and ancient relationship

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/31/2008 12:55 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment
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