In November 2019, many people in the city of Wuhan in China were getting sick with a respiratory illness. While authorities knew this wasn’t normal and there were signs of a fast spreading disease, China hid this news from the outside world. …

India needs to be very vigilant. — The belligerence of the China towards Taiwan has been making news recently. China has been sending scores of threatening air sorties into Taiwanese air space in the last few months and experts have been increasingly mulling about China taking Taiwan by force. …

With its real estate sector in crisis, China is heading for an economic stagnation soon, even if it tries to contain the bubble. — The burst of a bubble in the real estate sector is one of the most difficult to get out of for any economy. This is true even in highly regulated economies with real estate sector making up less than 15% of their GDP. …

My musings on some news of the week. — BBC “figures out” why Modi is so popular among Indian youth! India’s millennials born between 1981–1996 form 400 million of India’s population it seems. Which means they are a huge vote bank for any politician. Forty percent of them had voted for Modi in 2019 in spite of 45-year unemployment highs it seems. So now a BBC correspondent from his cushy…

In the latest count publicly available, some fifteen provinces in China are suffering from electricity shortages and blackouts. Many companies and factories have been asked to shutdown operations for many hours, and local cities are rationing their power. But why is China suddenly facing a power shortage? The answer given…

In a recent theosophical discussion with a Periava (elderly soul), I started getting impromptu verbal insights into the nature of philosophy, science, and religion. This has been happening often recently where my abstract mental visions and intuitions (Dhi) have condensed into words (Vak) as I get questioned on various subject…

When we hear the word Mesopotamia, we imagine deserts, camels, and an ancient civilization we have read about in history. Those who imagine with maps in their head, may vaguely see the region around present day Iraq. All this imagination is approximately correct about Mesopotamia. To define it more accurately…

Just kidding, but there’s something interesting out there. — Recently, I had conversations with a friend who believe they are an alien. They even believe they came from the Proxima Centauri system. While it has been fun playing along with that story, it surprised me to know they did not know about the news of an earth-like planet possibly…

When I was in school, I learned about the mole. No, it is not the mole that we find on our skin or the animal that looks like a rat. This is the unit of measure in chemistry and equates to 6.022 …