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China has denigrated the move by the United Kingdom (UK), the United States (US) and Australia to co-operate on hypersonic weapons under the trilateral alliance AUKUS.  Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said it is exigent that the country builds its defences as quickly as possible to counter an increasingly aggressive China, with hypersonic weapons creatingContinue reading “China: expansion for itself, rhetoric for others’ “

When one has paid one’s debt  Perhaps, it’s time for death.  How to reckon with the sorrows when the time has come  That memories and tears will linger in the minds of some  Yet life’s little blessings were in truly caring and sharing  To be a beacon of love and in so unswervingly doing  Shining theContinue reading “When death comes: A poem “

It could be roses all the way for a modern-day Valentine to woo his lady love. But the ordinary local Jimmy would hardly relish the pangs of anxiety he’d go through before he sought the approval of the woman in question. And it would be anyone’s guess if he’d actually hail the wedding aisle after that. Continue reading “The mar-age of marriage: Just for laughs “

Life can seem so unjust to the good  Why in suffering that they should  bear witness to the cruelty of fate  While those out of greed riches bait That wealth and power be not the aim  How life turns out is just a game  to seek propriety and humbly discriminate  between good choices, and evilContinue reading “Life, justice and eternity: A poem “

Among the many illusions that we inadvertently entertain  Is the one that incessantly revisits us time and again  That we are endowed with a bounty of free will  Not knowing it is constraints that our aspirations still  While men believe they can do whatever they want  It is the hand of God that indeed alwaysContinue reading “Karma and free will: A poem “

True to NATO Deputy-General Secretary Mircea Geoana’s words, Russia’s exceptionable war against Ukraine is increasingly seeming like a war it cannot win. Russian officials have so far not ruled out the use of chemical and nuclear weapons in their callous invasion of a staunchly resistant Ukraine, that has managed to hold out so far.   “Mr. PutinContinue reading “Ukraine war: Russia burning its fingers “

History is replete with tales of brazen belligerence  Civilisations have been built on such aggressiveness  That man is inculcated to view his neighbours as aliens  And subjugate them, and instill fear in their veins  Peace has not a chance between fallacious borders  As long as domination of others is the day’s order  And callous warContinue reading “The greed for power and the seed of war: A poem “

There is an eleventh holy fateful commandment  That secures God’s unswerving telling judgement  Those that act with a secret sense of virtue  garner mysterious proceeds that are invisibly true  That they do not serve power, fame and fortune  But in sincerity bear charity in the mute  And those who work for selfish personal gain  areContinue reading “Of pharisees and publicans: A poem “

The United Nations (UN) on Tuesday, March 15, adopted a resolution introduced by Pakistan, on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC), designating the day as ‘International Day to Combat Islamophobia’.  But India begged to differ. India made a plea to the UN to make the scope of the ‘Islamophobia’ debate broader to encompass other non-Abrahamic religions likeContinue reading “Excuse me, religiophobia, not Islamophobia “

How life can be an endlessly winding crucible of pain  Those that are resolute and brave, and do not feign  That they can be snared by evil, but yet have goodness reign  And so let opportunities slip by, but do not self-disdain  That one can be dazed by mishap, but be miraculously unfazed  For inContinue reading “Ode to those who, in the dark, dance: A poem “