Cricket, Afghanistan

As the mathematicians in policy-making attempt to maximize societal utility in cross-section and by integration longitudinally for each specimen, one has to wonder if there are better ways to think about it. The trouble with mathematicians, engineers and economists in general is that they are too good in math but…

At the end of the Northern Hemisphere, there is a land with hellish weather and selfish people. However, it is God’s own country, where people of different faiths come together as if they are all the same. It is a place that people from all around the world come to…

From their inception, humans have been looking for alien beings. Some call them Gods and others Extra-terrestrials. Unfortunately, there has been no evidence of either, thus far. Some in the space agency got a bit more excited a decade ago and drew a line on the sand that they would…

As the “simulated attacks,” on the lonely island compound, a populace that has a lot to be proud of historically has shown its Achille’s heel. Freedom is not something autocrats value and they strive to teach the population the same. And, it appears they have succeeded in convincing a large…

As large countries cuddle with autocrats and killers of democracy, as the small ones extinguish themselves, as the heat wave arrives earlier than predicted and as misery envelope the globe, it appears hopeless. Only fools will remain optimistic where humans kill others of different religion, color and gender, as the…

Democracy, “ a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives,” requires a necessary condition. The system requires the whole population, all eligible members of a state, to participate in the process. So, in country with black, white, brown…

The Old Men in the Supreme Court have done it again. Just as the Old Men in the Congress and the Senate have been. Just as the Old Men in the “largest and oldest democracies.” have been. Some wear pin striped suits and others Saffron colored adornments. Make no mistake…

The University of Chicago had a deficiency — it has been less efficient in creating criminals compared to sister schools in Boston and Philadelphia. Thanks to couple of Effing Chickens from Hyde Park, that problem has been solved. One has been aiding and abetting the worst criminal in American politics…