Monthly Archives: January 2019

I am in my 50s and old enough to remember the deaths of both Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. In 1984 the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was shot and killed by two of her own security guards who happened to be Sikhs. This assassination was in retaliation for the desecration of the Golden Temple […]

Until a few years ago Osama Bin Laden was regarded as the biggest threat to western civilization. Now of course the ISIS is bigger and stronger than the Al Qaeda. But from a broad perspective the situation has not changed for the West. Yes, the ISIS is capable of civil war (in Syria) while the […]

I remember an anecdote which happened more than twenty years ago. I was working as an accountant for a small firm which shall remain unnamed. I had taken over my responsibilities and had been working there for about a couple of months when the proprietor spoke to me and said:- “I had to pay a […]