Musings

Michael Grunwald in Politico : a must-read for any concerned parties. The most consequential aspect of President Trump—like the most con...

The past few days have seen protests in Iran. @Ghasseminejad tweeted:  "Protestors in Iran: "We are Aryans! We don't worshi...

Need help interpreting this (note this is a 2014 paper, and already could be out-of-date, so fast are the developments in the field of aDNA...

People like to point to IQ as a predictor of success (often based on studies done in the US military)  often failing to note that the IQ te...

Tony Joseph in the Hindu writes: (highlights added) (PS: for a take on the non-news content of Tony Joseph's article, see this. ) Th...

"Conservatism is what conservatives think, say, and do. As conservatives change ... so does what it means to be a conservative." @...

IBM's predictions for today from five years ago: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/39685.wss ARMONK, N.Y.     - 17 De...

Mark Joseph Stern at Slate explains it : Trump’s Nominees Think Life Tenure on the Federal Bench Should Be Handed Out Like a Participation ...

The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation’s top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases —  ...

This is from the Times of London, November 16, 1855: ...A dominion of this sort, in which so many squares of the chessboard were British ...

In 2014 in India, 560,000  out of 2,260,000 sanctioned police positions were vacant. At about 138 policemen per 100,000 population, India w...

It is true that the Government of India can keep a scientific finding from being published.  But keep the finding secret?   The more upsett...

If you thought you've seen all of the possible theories about Aryans in India, you're wrong.  After Aryan Invasion Theory, and Arya...

Long ago, at one of the peak times of controversy over the Ramjanmabhoomi/Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, I discovered one of the joys of the full...

Gross Domestic Savings and Gross Capital Formation as a fraction of GDP. India, Korea 1960-2017. World Bank Data. India's growth has...

Bonobos and chimpanzees are equally related to humans evolutionarily speaking , yet everyone links human societies to chimpanzees only.

Anand Ranganath and Sheetal Ranganathan have a great essay, "The Forgotten Indian Wizards And The Birth Of Modern Forensics" , th...

Without Fail & Persuader.  Fictional world full of nasty people, but the good guy always wins.

Al-Biruni (973-1048) or Alberuni was a contemporary of Mahmud of Ghazni and accompanied him in his invasions of India.  Al-Biruni is known ...

 It is very hard to prove that somebody did not say or write something; absolute certainty is not possible.  But one can be very confident ...