Anoop Verma's Diary: Darshana & Itihasa

Bhishma Lying on the Bed of Arrows Among the six classical systems (darshanas) of Indian philosophy, Sankhya and Yoga stand as closely relat...

Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini, Ciano  just before signing the  Munich Agreement, Sept 1938 Since the guns roared in Ukraine and t...

President Reagan with Afghan Mujahideen Oval Office, 1983 Afghanistan and Pakistan are once again at war, each claiming to have struck devas...

“Russia plays chess, China plays Go, and America plays poker.” ~ With this one line, economist Jeffrey Sachs captures the essence of global ...

When Russia sells uranium to the United States, it is deemed a matter of strategic necessity. But when Europe attempts to import Russian oil...

Jawaharlal Nehru is often remembered as Mahatma Gandhi’s chosen disciple, yet the two men embodied strikingly different Indias. Gandhi’s Ind...

Ayn Rand: From reason to a cult of ego  that glorified adultery & abortion “Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to ...

Morality, though revered as an absolute by many philosophers and preachers, is in truth a subjective construct. Its edicts bind the conscien...

Soon after the 1917 Revolution, the Bolsheviks imagined that money itself could be annihilated. They saw Ruble as not a medium of exchange b...

The dream of a universal human nature, so often invoked in the rhetoric of modernity, is not an ancient inheritance of mankind but a relativ...

Socialism and capitalism, though clothed in the rhetoric of salvation, conceal within themselves the seeds of ruin. Socialism, by exalting t...

Collectivism is the fountainhead of culture and civilization. The greater the refinement of a society, the deeper and more intricate are the...

It is fashionable to say that history repeats itself. But if history were truly repetitive, then the future would be a mere echo of the past...

I watched Hannity’s interview with President Trump and was struck less by what was asked than by what was carefully avoided.  Hannity, inste...

Dresden after World War II bombing “Europe has to grow out of the mindset that Europe’s problems are the world’s problems, but the world’s p...

The United States now staggers under a federal debt exceeding $37 trillion—yet President Trump speaks as though Washington’s coffers are fin...

“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...

It is often said that George Orwell’s aphorism from 1984 —“War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength”—was a mirror held up to ...

" It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal. " ~ Henry Kissinger In an age where dipl...

Deng Xiaoping The rise of China poses an enduring question: Can prosperity flourish without freedom? Can a world-class market economy be eng...

History does not listen to sermons. It does not genuflect before manifestos on human rights or bow to declarations of moral idealism. These ...

The digital revolution, so loudly heralded as humanity’s great leap into the future, may well be remembered as the most sophisticated scam o...