How to Heal Your Gut
The gut comprises our gastrointestinal tract and includes the esophagus, stomach, and intestines. Primarily, it digests, absorbs, and excretes nutrients and thus it is very important to maintain a healthy gut. There are many...
Regulating Artificial Intelligence
Unregulated AI poses a significant threat to individual privacy, autonomy, and societal harmony, eerily reminiscent of the Orwellian dystopia depicted in the classic novel, 1984. In this chilling tale, George Orwell writes, "Big Brother...
Save the elephants
Last week a barasingha strayed into a field in Panchkula. She ate a ball of wheat only to find it was a homemade bomb and her jaw and throat were blasted off.
Passersby saw her...
Why is Multilateralism in disarray?
In his seminal paper entitled "Multilateralism: the Anatomy of an Institution," John Gerard Ruggie defines multilateralism as an institutional arrangement that facilitates coordination among three or more states based on "generalized" principles of conduct....
Nicola Bulley and the psychology of when people go missing – is this the...
In the UK, on 27th January, Nicola Bulley, disappeared while walking her dog by a river in Lancashire, England. The story was widely covered in the British press and media. including BBC News.
The mortgage adviser...
The Psychology of Surviving an Earthquake
The BBC News website is now reporting that the death toll from the Turkey-Syria earthquake, at the time of writing, has passed 33,000, exceeding the more than 17,000 killed when a similar quake hit...
Poets of Divine Derailment
The Argentinian poet Borges said, ‘Every writer creates his own precursors’. My precursors--consciously reclaimed, gratefully acknowledged--are the devotional poets of the Indian subcontinent. I will admit I paid them little attention when I was...
Voices of the Global South
One of the many research reports that demonstrate how the developed world discriminates against the poor world is the December 2022 document by the South Centre titled "Illicit Financial Flows and Stolen Asset Recovery:...
What the FIFA World Cup can teach us about how to win in life?
Soccer is the planet’s most popular sport (outside of the USA), and the FIFA World Cup is therefore perhaps the largest mega-event in sports, possibly even surpassing the Olympics in worldwide fan interest.
Arguably the...
White Man’s Burden: Developed world’s diktats to developing countries
“Take up the White Man’s burden, Send forth the best ye breed, Go send your sons to exile, To serve your captives’ need….”
This is the first verse of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘infamous’ poem “The White...
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How to Heal Your Gut
The gut comprises our gastrointestinal tract and includes the esophagus, stomach, and intestines. Primarily, it digests, absorbs, and excretes nutrients and thus it is...
Regulating Artificial Intelligence
Unregulated AI poses a significant threat to individual privacy, autonomy, and societal harmony, eerily reminiscent of the Orwellian dystopia depicted in the classic novel,...
Save the elephants
Last week a barasingha strayed into a field in Panchkula. She ate a ball of wheat only to find it was a homemade bomb...
Why is Multilateralism in disarray?
In his seminal paper entitled "Multilateralism: the Anatomy of an Institution," John Gerard Ruggie defines multilateralism as an institutional arrangement that facilitates coordination among...