Category: English
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Don’t Take India Away From Us
This article originally appeared in the December 1, 2023 edition of India’s leading newsmagazine Outlook. It is archived by the author here for easy access. Are names of all countries proper nouns that should be the same in all languages? This is certainly not true for all countries. Germany is known as Deutschland by all…
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Let Motherhood Not Be Forced
[Background information for non-US readers for whom Roe and Wade just mean a pair of names, and “Choice” and “Life” are not obvious antonyms: US Supreme Court is very likely to come out with a decision in June 2022 that paves way for abortion becoming illegal in a large part of the United States. Read…
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Kashmir Files – Facts & Lessons
Around the time The Kashmir Files was released, I was binge watching the 9-part series Inventing Anna on Netflix. This series was released on Netflix a month before The Kashmir Files was released in theaters. Inventing Anna is about a twenty-something New York City socialite Anna Delvey who dupes multiple people and organizations of hundreds…
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The Rooster has one Leg
This post can be related to the current Trump saga, but is an age old story that can apply anywhere. Kokras chhai kuni zang (the rooster has one leg) is a common saying in Kashmiri language, my mother tongue. This fallacious statement is symbolic of someone making a wrong claim and sticking with it, no…
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Election Day Evening Worksheet
This is my prediction worksheet. According to this, Trump can take all toss ups, and Pennsylvania, and Biden will still have 270. You don’t like it? Here, take this spreadsheet and create your own.
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How Bigly Did Trump Win in 2016
Trump’s victory in 2016 was almost a fluke. If 40,000 voters in a country of 325 million people had changed their mind, he would have lost the election.
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My articles elsewhere
This is a partial listing of my articles written on other sites:
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US Midterm Elections – A Primer for foreigners
US Midterm elections are on Tuesday, November 6, 2018 and these are very important elections for the country. Many of the readers of this blog may wonder what this election is about. What/who is/are being elected? What is the impact of this on Donald Trump? Why are these called midterms? If you have these questions,…
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Arguments for Gun Control – 2
This is a continuation from my yesterday’s article, in which I countered “Virtual President” Bill Whittle’s arguments against gun control. Here are my counter arguments against some more common anti-regulation arguments. 1. People kill people, guns don’t. Let us together examine the logical validity of this very common argument that come from gun advocates. Yes,…