by Mahendra Ved | Apr 20, 2026 | Blogs
INDIA’S “WHY-NOT-ME” MOMENT A little-known Hindi language TV channel last week showed its anchor tearing his hair, actually, before the camera and audiences, yelling, ” Why India was ‘ignored’ especially by US President Donald Trump, for the role of...
by Mahendra Ved | Apr 13, 2026 | Diaspora
Between Hope & Hell in America With a complete lid on information, the talks in Islamabad, continuing till 3 AM, two hours before this is being written, allow no peep into where the myriad issues that triggered the West Asia conflict stand. Only “a stepping...
by Mahendra Ved | Mar 5, 2026 | Blogs
NEPAL GOES TO THE POLLS TODAY Street protests by the youth that removed the governments in India’s immediate neighbourhood, which began in 2024, are yielding political fruit in electoral terms. Myanmar is the exception, with the military engineering the victory in its...
by Mahendra Ved | Mar 2, 2026 | Blogs
A Hyperactive Trump Amidst the explosions across the Gulf region, and death and debris they are causing, including a girls’ school where 115 have been killed, I notice a familiar name this Sunday morning. Ali Larijani, the head of Iran’s National Security Council,...
by Mahendra Ved | Feb 16, 2026 | Blogs
END OF AN ERA & A “MOTHER-IN-LAW DEAL” For many of my generation who witnessed the birth of Bangladesh — from far, near or from a vantage point — an era has ended—the nostalgia of 1971 — of the grim events that led to it through that...
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