Broken Bangles: The Soul of Humanity is Broken

  Geopolitics and Oil Markets When the Ukraine War began, Russia halted the flow of natural gas to Europe in retaliation for NATO’s support of Ukraine . Europe also stopped buying Russian oil. Russia began selling oil at much lower prices to India and China. These two countries took advantage of the situation and gained economic momentum through refining and exporting oil products. Now, Europe buys refined oil products such as petrol and diesel from India and China. Ironically, this is the same oil Russia sells to India and China. India and China find this trade lucrative, which has also impacted the oil trade in the Gulf countries . Suddenly, the Gulf countries find India and China turning into their competitors in the Asian market. Oil and expatriates had dominated the discourse between India and the Gulf region. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi shifted the focus of these relationships to defense and security, as well as the possibility of forming a politically significant gl...

  Earth Has No Boundaries Earth has no borders except natural barriers, mountains and seas. There are no barriers at all, given the travel technologies we possess.  Surreal the concept of borders is, yet, borders are quite concrete too; they can start wars, prompt mass exodus, and provoke all kinds of tricky emotions like national pride, a sense of belonging, unjustified hostilities, and fear of the other. Many national borders have no physical properties. No one can tell where one country ends and another begins by merely looking at them. For that, one needs maps and soldiers, fences and fear.  They are mostly barren land, rivers and deserts, these national borders that we hold on to at huge prices, costing human lives, diplomacy, weapons, and real money. They deceive you if you look at them for long- so normal, one could even feel tempted to step across. The invisibility of such borders evokes many sociological and philosophical questions. Were There Borders Always? At ...