Anoop Verma's Diary: Darshana & Itihasa

Scientists have detected molecules in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet that, on Earth, are strongly linked to biological activity. The ...

Over the past century, human health and life expectancy have improved dramatically. The prevailing narrative—vigorously propagandized by the...

History, as the adage goes, is written by the victors. From imperial chronicles etched into stone to modern state-sponsored textbooks, the t...

Is Nirad C. Chaudhuri's Autobiography of an Unknown Indian a paean to the West or a sharp critique of the East? The initial pages might...

Common discourse often presents capitalism and communism as fundamentally opposed ideologies. Capitalism is celebrated for its free markets,...

The very notion of money is a constructed reality, a shared illusion we mistake for tangible truth. Its value isn't inherent; it's a...

Great Bath of Mohenjo-Daro   Democracy is often credited to Ancient Athens, where formal institutions of popular governance emerged in the 5...

Civilizations are not built on morality, reason, or cultural pride but on three primal forces: greed, guilt, and fear. While we celebrate ju...

What is the mind? Is it a function of the brain, or does it possess a deeper, intrinsic quality that transcends mere neural activity? Does t...

The notion that solar and wind power are "natural," while petroleum, diesel, and gas are "unnatural," is a narrative dev...

Instead of looking to nations with shrinking populations as models of success, India’s policymakers should study those that maintain high bi...

Elon Musk has a habit of making audacious predictions. On Saturday, the SpaceX founder declared that Starship—the world’s most powerful rock...

In his 2021 book Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union , historian Vladislav M. Zubok argues that Mikhail Gorbachev’s well-intentioned but ...

Happy Holi! Holi, the festival of water, colors and joy, is deeply intertwined with the natural spirit of Hinduism. Unlike many faiths roote...

At a recent press conference, Donald Trump said: "I think Ukraine wants to make a deal because they have no choice. I think Russia want...

The belief that democracies are inherently peaceful is a widespread but misleading notion. History suggests that democratic states have ofte...

The U.S. political establishment insists that Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine was “unprovoked.” But this narrative ignores the deeper orig...

American conservatives, self-proclaimed patriots, are celebrating the heated Oval Office confrontation between Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and...

Everything that you have ever learned is a lie. The trick to remaining sane in a world full of falsehoods is to find the lies that are worth...

The Second World War led to the end of European colonial power and the birth of two superpowers: the Soviet Union and the USA. From 1945 to ...

Just finished reading Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s book The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public...

On one side is the Western ideology of socialism which claims that all means of production are controlled by the people (which is a euphemis...

I am pleased to learn that President Trump has signed an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the USA from the World Health O...

The Hegelian “end of history” and the neoconservative “clash of civilizations” are two sides of the same ideological and mythological coin. ...

You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being religious. It is natural for human beings to be both.  Reason, which is the driv...

Intolerance of uncertainty is the major problem that modern society faces. People have been brainwashed into believing that with modern scie...

Creatures living in their natural environment tend to procreate at a high rate resulting in a rise in their population. When deer, lions, wo...

Human beings are incapable of developing anything that will always be perfect, moral and useful. Every system, technology, process, product ...

The cream rises to the top and so does the scum. This is true not only of broth but also of human affairs. Sometimes good people attain succ...

Truth is a mythology that we use to explain the universe to our own mind. Sometimes our truth conforms to reality; sometimes it doesn’t.  Hu...

In his social media platform Truth Social, President-elect Donald Trump has warned BRICS nations that they should not deal with any currency...

The idea that “truth always prevails” is widely accepted as the universal truth. But history tells us that truth is irrelevant as far as pol...

The truth is not something that humans can discover through observation and study of reality, as the materialists claim; it is a point of vi...

“As we have seen again and again throughout history, in a completely free information fight, truth tends to lose. To tilt the balance in fav...

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converte...

I just finished reading Peter Thiel’s book: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future . The book is full of interesting lin...