A Novel Prize for Obama

The Nobel peace prize awarded last week was a surprise. It should read shocking, but then according to me this is not the first time the Nobel committee that selects person, that it thinks competent to receive this award, has done something weird or egregious. I first thought or understood about this, in 1983, when [...]

SriLanka – solving the crisis

According to me the first step in solving the crisis that is affecting Sri Lanka today is – dissolving the LTTE, surrender and arrest of its leaders. LTTE was muddying up the waters, and causing problems for all parties involved in arriving at a solution to the problems of the tamil population. The tamil being [...]

Strike the LTTE

For the past few months, i have been closely watching the progress of the civil war in Sri Lanka. I was drawing immense pleasure from the fact that the LTTE, the terror organization that has been leading the battle against the Sri Lankan government, was being routed from bastion and being reduced to smaller and [...]

The War in Iraq

In what seems to be quite a revelation, the US is slowly admitting that Iraq is not going well. The rumbling Rumsfeld made some comments on the sunday TV, the weekly morning talk show, where the spin of the week is addressed or launched. This comes at a time when yesterday’s attacks in Mosul killed [...]