_*]:min-w-0 !gap-3.5″> Oil Wins but Ukraine loses War On 24 October 2025, the United States sanctioned Russian Oil again. Russia’s two largest oil exporting companies have been black listed. The announcement came…
President Trump and his baggage of conflict of interest
_*]:min-w-0 !gap-3.5″> President Makes Policy and Family Gets Rich The sequence is simple enough. President Trump signs a law in July 2025 that regulates stablecoins. His family launches crypto businesses. Those businesses…
Managed Decline of US Dollar
USA’s Dollar is losing monopoly. The dollar’s reign isn’t ending, it already ended as absolute ruler. What remains is managed decline from monopoly to strong leadership. Global trade totals thirty trillion dollars…
Story of a Greedy Merchant repeated by USA
Greed and Fair dealing Once in the city of Boston, USA, there lived two traveling merchants who sold brass and tin ware. One was honest and fair in all his dealings, but…
The War that changed everything.
India’s Invisible War Victory. The British F-35 landed in Kerala on June 14, 2025. Bad weather forced it down. Then it couldn’t take off again. Hydraulic failure, they said. The most advanced…
Cruelty, Divorce and Alimony
Getting divorce is not an easy task. Like any other litigation, it drags like forever. Worst litigants feel that courts are biased against husband and in attempt to protect ‘weaker’ gender often…
Hibernation in Linux Mint 22.1 Zara.
_*]:min-w-0 !gap-3.5″> Enable Hibernation on Linux Mint 22 (AMD Ryzen + Radeon) – Dual Boot Systems Why This Guide Exists Hibernation feature was missing from my Linux Mint. That was a surprise. I…
Happy Diwali 2025
Happy Deepawali to all for the Samvat Year 2082 (Gregorian Year 2025 )
Gold Rush 2015: Mapping the trajectory of spectacular rise.
Gold Rush 2025: When Markets Chase Hard Value Gold does more than glint in vaults or adorn wrists. Throughout history, it has quietly measured faith in money and in governments. _*]:min-w-0 !gap-3.5″>…
AI Bias: The Sanitization Machine and Solution
An analysis of AI Chat. I was watching a youtube video. Speaker was Vijay Prashad. He is an author of many bestseller books. I started a chat with Gork (xAI) to confirm….
Petrodollar: The Saudi-American Oil Relationship
_*]:min-w-0 !gap-3.5″> History of Petrodollar, USA and Saudi Arabia. Timeline: May 1931: U.S. recognition and oil concession grant May 29, 1933: Formal Standard Oil concession signed February 14, 1945: USS Quincy meeting…
Bullet trains and high value trade in India
How High Value Trade Actually Moves in India? India will soon get High Speed Trains aka Bullet Trains. India ranks as the 4th largest global economy in 2025, with a…
What is the definition of a Hindu?
Who is a Hindu? Rethinking Identity, Diversity, and the Freedom to Proclaim The question “Who is a Hindu?” appears simple, but unravels into a profound puzzle at the heart of Indian civilization….
Comparison of Russian and Ukrainian Languages
Evolution of Russian and Ukrainian Languages Folk and Elite Languages in Contrast Russian and Ukrainian share the same linguistic origin. Both descend from Old East Slavic, the language spoken in the…
Hindu Nationalist: The Weaponized Slur
Who is Hindu Nationalist? There are two ways people view India’s history with invaders, whether invader is Chugtai Turk aka Mughal or British. Group 1 believes those invasions had some justification. They…
Meet your Vanilla Experts of Today
The Vanilla Expert Pattern: Criticism Without Prescription Meet the Vanilla Experts of today. Vijay Prashad is an acknowledged Expert in “History”. He has written many bestseller books. He criticizes colonialism but soft-pedals…
Raghuram Rajan: The Eternal Pessimist
The Timeline of Doom Raghuram Rajan, the ex governor of Reserve Bank of India has one setting. Gloomy. He left India in 2016 but never stopped lecturing from his Chicago perch. Every…
The Myth of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
_*]:min-w-0 !gap-3.5″> PPP as a Methodological Illusion: Why Purchasing Power Parity Calculations Fundamentally Fail? Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) has been presented as a rigorous, scientific method for comparing living standards across nations….
A Study of The Put-Call Dispersion Index or PCR.
The Put-Call Dispersion Index as a Primer on Seller-Driven Risk Appetite: A Paradigmatic Reconceptualization (Put Call Ratio Analysis) Abstract This paper introduces a novel interpretive framework for the Put-Call Dispersion Index (PCDI)…
India’s USD settlement without USA’s SWIFT
_*]:min-w-0 !gap-3.5″> GIFT City’s Dollar Settlement System SWIFT alternative in India: On October 7, 2025, India launched real-time USD settlement at GIFT City. The system cuts transaction times from hours to seconds…
Mackinder’s Heartland Theory is an example of Narcissistic Cartography
Problems with Mackinder’s Heartland Theory. The Geographical Pivot of History Draw a map that puts your anxieties at the center. Call it objective geography. Declare it universal truth. The map becomes the…
Grok (xAI) not only lies, it cheats and is not transparent.
Warning About Grok (xAI) What You Need to Know _*]:min-w-0 !gap-3.5″>Grok, the AI from xAI, has serious problems. Not small bugs. Not minor issues. Real deception that wastes your time and violates…
Empires Poison Themselves and Collapse
Empires’ Intellectual Poison. Empires fall hard. They choke on lies. Britain twisted India’s knowledge to rule it. They warped philosophy, rigged censuses, stole land.It does not matter where is the seat of…
Quietness of Mind is not a Mirage.
_*]:min-w-0 !gap-3.5″> When Mind Finds its Quiet The Wheel That Never Stops Human mind is like Earth. It spins constantly at incredible speed. Earth rotates at 67,000 miles per hour around the…
Tendency of Economic Experts to be Economical with Truth
_*]:min-w-0 !gap-3.5″> Why Economic Experts Keep Telling You Half the Story? Let me tell you about a problem that’s been bothering me for a while now. It’s about how we talk about…