The World Is In Me

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...