Over millennia, men, social groups, and countries have fought over land, resources, women, even honour, but the arrival of Abrahamic monotheism brought in a...
This special edition of Cut The Clutter, straight from the Siliguri corridor, details the strategic importance of the narrow strip of land in West Bengal, and how it’s a vital link connecting the Northeast to the rest of India.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
Love this paragraph:
“Yet, to pretend the war was fought to build democracy is a self-serving fiction. The Soviet Union dismantled German death camps but ran its own system of Gulags that claimed millions of lives. The US was an Apartheid nation, and Britain’s Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was an unrepentant defender of imperialism. These truths, though, are not allowed to intrude on the invention of Normandy as a war for freedom.”
Love this paragraph:
“Yet, to pretend the war was fought to build democracy is a self-serving fiction. The Soviet Union dismantled German death camps but ran its own system of Gulags that claimed millions of lives. The US was an Apartheid nation, and Britain’s Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was an unrepentant defender of imperialism. These truths, though, are not allowed to intrude on the invention of Normandy as a war for freedom.”