The World Is In Me

2020 has been an eventful year and if we had thought that it could not have been worse, it has again  surprised us. Two countries in western Asia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are in full blow war since September 27th and till now there has been no sign of abating. Nagorno-Karabakh a 4400 sq.km landlocked region, claimed by both the countries is the center of this conflict. Though internationally this land locked region is recognized to be part of Azerbaijan, but is populated by people of Armenians origin. Now, coming to the background of this conflict, like most of the arm conflicts this one too has multiple facets to look into. Religious and Historical – Armenia was historically a Christian dominated region whereas Azerbaijan a Shia Muslim. In fact, Azerbaijan is the second largest Shia population after Iran. in fact, that is one reason for its close proximity with Iran which is its’ neighbor in southern region and share naval border over Caspian Sea. Ottomans in 1915 started pu...

United Nation created at the end of World War (WW II) in 1945, aimed at maintaining the peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations based on principles of equality and self-determination, achieve international cooperation to solve major challenges faced by humanity and to be a center for harmonizing the actions of nation in the attainment of common good. As 22 nd September marked the 75 th anniversary of the world body, I think it is a right time to retrospect and understand why many thinks that UN has lost its significance in the world affairs when humanity is facing multitude of challenges. So far United Nation has been successful in avoiding any direct confrontation amongst major countries and thus preventing the humanity from the scourge of a military WW III. But the last seven decades has been blotted with enough confrontations which critics often sites to questions UN’s significance. And when the world is facing the rage of a C-19 crisis, which is the first t...

 On 9 th September, 2020 US President Donald J. Trump took on Twitter to thank a post from JerusalemPost which read as follows - “#Breaking: @realDonaldTrump was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his hand in reaching the #IsrealUAEDeal…..” Within 72 hrs of above breaking news, the President again received the 2 nd nomination for his role in Serbia-Kosovo peace agreement. Though both were just nominations and the actual outcome could be different, this news did give a reason to all Trump supporters to cheer as the run up for the election has just started gathering steam all across the US. 2018 also President Trump was close to get the Nobel Peace prize for his attempt to reconcile the relations in Korean Peninsula and Syria. But over the period of last couple of years there has been hardly any ground traction for either of the agreements. Demolishing of the inter-Korean embassy office by Pyongyang and uneasy state of the rubble turned Syria again pro...

The phrase Fake news is generally used to denote a deliberate disinformation spreading content which one can easily encounter in any social media platforms like Whatsapp, Twitter or Facebook. Though this term got prominence in January 11, 2017 when then US President-elect Mr. Donald Trump used it to label CNN a “fake news” channel but we will be surprised to know that this term has a long and quite an illustrious history. A quick look in the Google Books Ngrams Viewer, which tracks the popularity and usage of a word or phrase for last 200 years, we can very well see that this term has been in popular uses since 1820s and had seen its popularity during the period between 1920s and 1940s before reaching its ultimate fames during 2000s. It was chosen as the word of the year 2017 by Glasgow based Collin dictionary War & Politics If major world events are plotted on the timeline axis of the above Google Ngrams Viewer graph, the peaks seem to coincides with the Wars that the major En...

Imagine your selves as a real naughty kids for sometime. It is a typical Sunday morning and you don't have any friends around to play. Suddenly you hear a puppy's cry. You look for the puppy & see that it is one of those cutest little one. What will you all do? Will not the thought of taking it to home cross your mind for a moment? My dear readers, I infact did it. And do you know what response I got from my Mom? “ If you continue demanding a dog, either I will stay or the canine will stay in house; both cannot.”  That dream of having a dog as pet got a premature death. I am always fond of pet. I wanted my parents to give me one on my birthday, but that still remains an alluring dream. For me a pet is always more than a friend. A true companion who can take away your boredom & showers you with love and expect nothing but affection from you in return. As I grew up, like most of us, we get surrounded by so many whom we also have to call friends. My friend list...

Dear friends Happy Diwali to one and all!!! As the morning unfolds you may be finding your facebook pages filled with Diwali wishes and lovely smses in your phones.  Before you respond to all those, you may like to have a small glimpses of a not so beautiful incident that had happened in front of my block in the apartment I stay. It was way past 10pm on the night of Diwali, beyond permissible hours of burning banned crackers. Lighting of noise cracker was rampant nearby the badminton court which is adjacent to my block. A neighbor of mine went down requesting to restrain from using the banned crackers. Forget about restraining, acting naive, they were in denial and don't even know who were burning those. The noise decibel reached further height and it was around 11:00 pm. Police had to come, seized some crackers, warned few and left. I saw children running upstairs in fear, holding bunch of bombs and noise crackers, terrified that the police had come. It made ...