The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 10. For over two millennia, Chinese civilization was organized around a highly sophisticated social hierarchy. This was known as the Shi-nong-gong-shang (士農工商) system.1…
China: A Stirring Pot of Empires and Civilizations
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 9. China is an ancient civilization. Its original name was Zhōngguó (中国, traditional 中國), which literally means “Middle Country” or “Central Kingdom.” It…
Japan: Feudal Pyramids and the Burakumin Outcasts
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 8 Japan is an ancient and continuous civilization. From a distance, we often presume it to be a democratic society like a Western…
Plight of American Dalit Caste or Suppressed Black Citizens
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 7. Dalit means suppressed. Chapter 6 showed the tale of successful mixed-race Black individuals. They take a trajectory out of their rat hole….
The New American Celebrity Caste
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 6. In Chapter 5, it was demonstrated that American society has a caste structure. Through the racial sieve, this structure filters every citizen.[1]…
USA: Caste Without the Name
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 5. All men are equal. George Washington said it most veraciously. Yet, he owned 124 slaves at his death.[1] He was not a…
The British Aristocracy: A Legacy of Hypocrisy and Landed Cartels
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 4. The British aristocracy is celebrated in popular culture as the guardian of tradition and honor. We see this in romanticized novels and…
The Architecture of Global Caste System
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 3. In Chapter 2, we saw a living, vibrant example of a landlord class legacy in Germany. We also discussed similar contours from…
Living Example of Caste in Europe: Germany
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation: Chapter 2. Who is Ursula von der Leyen? “Von der” is a German noble prefix. It literally means “from the” in English. Does it…
The Global Conundrum of Caste or Economic Segregation.
Caste Without the Name: A Mirror to the West. (Chapter 1) Across human societies, from ancient empires to modern digital democracies, we find remarkably similar systems of social stratification. When we strip…
Solution to the Theft Problem at Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, Ayodhya
Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust Mismanagement Issues. (Chapter 4) The theft at Ram Janmabhoomi was a product of a systemic failure at all professional levels. The management was inadequately equipped to…
Operation Epic Fury and Comparison with Operation Sindoor
Revisiting the Iran War from a different perspective Operation ‘Epic Fury’ has formally ended. It is going to be one week since the USA-Iran “Memorandum of Understanding” was signed in Versailles. The…
Trusts and NGOs: India’s Crises in Governance (Chapter 10)
Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust Mismanagement (Chapter 3) Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Trust has exposed something that every lawyer in India knows. Inadequacy of laws relating to charities and NGOs that are…
Ram Janmabhoomi Trust or Kingdom of Champat Rai.
Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust Mismanagement Issues. (Chapter 2) Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Trust has exposed something that every lawyer in India knows. Inadequacy of laws relating to charities and NGOs that…
Good Fortune Movie Is a Myopic World of Poverty
What Actually Keeps People Poor? (Part 3) Good Fortune Movie treats poverty as an external factor. Poverty is not a fixed condition waiting for external rescue. It is a set of choices…
Beyond GDP: Initiative to Fix a Broken Compass by Adding More Dials
An open letter to the UN High-Level Expert Group on Beyond GDP. Sent by email to: [email protected] The United Nations has appointed a High-Level Expert Group to develop indicators that “complement” GDP….
Review of Movie Good Fortune on Four Point Framework
Good Fortune Tested on Structural Analysis. (Part 2) Movie Good Fortune is structurally broken. Is there a formula or framework to make a good movie? The movie makers will tell you that:…
Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust’s Mismanagement Issues
Theft at Ram Janmabhoomi Temple (Chapter 1) Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir in Ayodhya was consecrated on 22 January 2024. It was celebrated as a civilizational moment by hundreds of millions. Prime Minister Narendra…
Why President Donald Trump Picked a Quarrel with PM Giorgia Meloni?
New World Order: Chapter 18 ** The Meloni Factor. The World Order is changing and a new order is emerging. That is the theme of past 17 chapters. In Chapter 12 it…
Turn of the Cycle for Nithin Kamath and Zerodha
Nothing Succeeds like Success. Nothing sells better than an idea whose time has come. When the telephone was commercially launched a century back, it came with a fixed charge per month. It…
Possibility of merger of Congress Party and TMC
The Media Circus Without Analysis. (Chapter 13) Merger of Congress and TMC: News media in India should start a political party. They are so full of political ideas that it is no…
Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding: USA Surrenders to Iran in Versailles
Has the War between USA and Iran ended? (Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding) The short and honest answer is that we do not know. We know nothing about this war. Why the war…
National Citizens Party of India (NCPI) enters the Circus of West Bengal Politics
Using a Nail to Pluck a Nail. (Chapter 12) NCPI is a fifth largest political party in the Parliament of India. It has 20 members in Lok Sabha. All this happened in…
Maharashtra Precedent Revisiting West Bengal
The End of the TMC Party? (Chapter 11) When Twenty Lok Sabha MPs out of 28, merge TMC into the National Citizens Party of India (NCPI), it is not a defection. It…
West Bengal Under Occupation of an unlawful Organization
The Parallel Government: Revenue Model of TMC. (Chapter 10) West Bengal under Mamata Banerjee was not a state with a corruption problem. It was a state with two governments. The first government…