By T.J.S. George India’s view of, and dealings with, China are becoming curiouser and curiouser. Suddenly we are told that dozens of Chinese apps have been banned. Reasons cited include security and privacy. How come these became issues only now? For long China, like all other topics, has been a provider of opportunities for our…
Re-visiting Shashi Tharoor’s advice on India-China border dispute
June 22, 2020I am no politician, yet in a democracy every citizen with a voting right is a politician. After all, he has chosen his Government. This is the simple reason I ventured to contemplate on what was happening in Ladakh at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between our forces and that of China. Thank God,…
Govt. forms Task Force to attract MNCs leaving China
May 13, 2020Bengaluru: With many Multi-National Companies (MNCs) opting to leave China following the outbreak of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, the Karnataka Government has wasted no time in constituting an Investment Promotion Task Force to attract companies and manufacturers leaving China. Large and Medium Scale Industries Minister Jagadish Shettar had held a meeting in this regard a…
Misinformation virus (Coronavirus)
February 8, 2020As we stepped into the New Year, we were welcomed by a new strain of Coronavirus (CoV). A virus named so because the protein spikes around the virus makes it look like a crown and in Latin corona means crown. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from common cold to…
The demon called Coronavirus
February 3, 2020The demon will soon be defeated “World Health Organization (WHO) does not recommend evacuation of foreign nationals, and called on the international community to remain calm and not overreact. WHO is confident in China’s epidemic prevention and control ability.” The epidemic is a demon, and we cannot let this demon hide,” says the Chinese President…
Cornavirus eclipses Lunar New Year holiday in China
January 24, 2020Beijing: The death toll in China’s viral outbreak of the Cornavirus has risen to 25 with the number of confirmed cases leaping to 830, the government said on Friday. The respiratory virus emerged from a seafood and animal market in the central city of Wuhan which has a population of 11 million. Cases have been…
India, China, Chanakyas and Vaastu
August 6, 2019China expressed its scornfulness openly after a visit to Beijing in mid 2018 by Ram Madhav, considered a Chanakya by the BJP establishment for unknown reasons. He is famous for making the mess in Kashmir messier. By T.J.S. George Two years ago, the then Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar (now Foreign Minister) said that India’s rise…
Modi swearing-in
May 24, 2019Galaxy of leaders including US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping likely to be invited for the gala ceremony to be held on May 28, 29 or 30 New Delhi: A galaxy of top world leaders could be invited to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony for his second…
CHANOYU: The Japanese Tea Ceremony
November 26, 2018By Girija Madhavan Chanoyu,” or “The Way of Tea” is a Japanese tradition of serving tea, a ritual evolved over centuries. It is the ceremonial presentation of “Matcha” or powdered green tea by a Tea Master [man or woman] to a small group of guests, generally in specified tea houses. With Zen Buddhist origins, it…
‘China is a bigger enemy of India than Pakistan’
July 1, 2018Mysuru: Maintaining that China is a bigger enemy than Pakistan, as China is hurling our economy by dumping its goods, Swadeshi Jagran Manch National Organising Secretary Kashmiri Lal Ji has said that while China is exporting goods worth 64 Billion Dollars to our country, it has been importing very less from India. He was speaking…
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