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Bassem Yousef, an Egyptian-American comedian, television host, and surgeon at the India Today Conclave 2024 labelled Israel a “typical narcissist” –by skillfully blending comedy with poignant criticism, directing his ire
Continue readingIndia Bans Bassem Yousef Speech. The Video Has Gone Viral.
Association Is All You Need: Most intelligence is pattern matching and you can do a lot of really good pattern matching if you have a hierarchy of associative memories…
WATCH how a trained race horse snaps ties from his jockey, and runs the race all by himself…races to the finishing line and wins!
Karan Thapar at The Wire interviews Namit Arora, the scriptwriter and anchor of the series on Indian history called ‘Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization’, which covers a sweep
Continue readingTalking Point: “Indian Civilization is an Idea But Also an Enigma”
Syed Ahmad Hassan Shah, Advocate Supreme Court at Dawn News discussion the aftermath of six Pakistani judges’ shocking letter to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC). The letter highlighted attempts to
“Unlike many other countries, the Malaysian PM’s perspective is so very different”, Dr. Syed Mahmud Ali notes at The Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2024 held in south
Continue readingMalaysia Does Not View China as a Threat: Analyst Mahmud Ali at Davos of the East
Looking at the issue from the point of view of Israel, Professor Kahneman says that peace is difficult – very difficult. “Power imbalance” [1:07] is one of the reasons, he
Oil Analyst Syed Rashid Hussain (Toronto-based) shares his views on Pakistan’s energy assets and discusses A Guyanese Case Study on Oil, with Dawn News: Part 1 of 2 Part 2
Continue readingWhy Isn’t Pakistan Exploiting Its Energy Assets?
Dawn Editorial: WHILE U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu’s recent testimony before a Congressional panel contained no bombshells about the cipher saga, the American diplomat’s replies to questions from
Continue readingGeopolitical Turbulence and Iran-Pakistan Pipeline
Blast from the past: Gulzar pens a beautiful ode to Mehdi Hasan, and remembers Ahmed Faraz–it was written sometime in 2012) when he learnt that Mehdi Hasan has passed away.
Primatologist Frans de Waal (Author of ‘Chimpanzee Politics’) draws surprising parallels between how humans and primates choose their leaders. His research reveals some of the unexpected capacities of alpha males
Few quotes and and an inspirational video on ‘friends’: “A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.” —Aristotle.“True friends are great riches.” —Unknown.“Never leave a friend behind…” –Unknown.“Friendship is