The Times of India | November 09, 2024 The world is facing a critical time with ongoing conflicts like Ukraine Russia and Palestine-Israel wars. During these turbulent times, US has a unique…

War on its own is an act which, once initiated, can never be brought to an end. If active war is discontinued, passive war takes its place. In actual fact there are always two sides in a war: one…

The Iraq War, an armed conflict that began with the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, was led by the United States during the tenure of President George Bush Jr. A military action, it was planned at the…

The English historian Edward Gibbon (1737 – 1794) observed in his famous work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ‘History is indeed little more than the register of crimes,…

Philosophers and reformers in every age have been obsessed with the concept of idealism. Some have wanted to establish an ideal government, but they have failed. Some have tried to establish an ideal…

During the period when the Prophet Muhammad was in Makkah (610 to 632 AD), there was a war in 627 AD called the Battle of the Trench (Ghazwa al-Khandaq) in which the opponents of the Prophet Muhammad…

The Times of India | November 04, 2024 Writing about the Gulf war of 1991, I wrote in my diary on Feb. 2, 1991, as follows: No matter which side earns the laurels of victory, the misery of the…

Subhas Chandra Bose (1897 – 1945) was a great leader of India. The goal he had set for himself was to free India of the British rule. He gave this slogan to Indians: ‘Give me blood, and I shall give…

According to the Bible, Jesus Christ said: ‘Whoever takes away your coat, do not withhold your shirt from him either.’ (Luke, 6:29) This does not mean to surrender to your rival, but simply to…