Feudalism

News about monks' sexual misconduct has become so frequent that it no longer shocks. But the latest scandal involving a rapist, paedophile monk makes my blood boil. It involves an abbot in Kanchanaburi who detained a 13-year-old novice at his temple residenc…

The story of the partition of Punjab and Bengal at the time of Independence is known to most in India through school history textbooks. These tumultuous events, however, exist as bit topics in our mind and are now under assault through a revisionist rewriting…

After nearly two triumphant decades marked by an unprecedented accumulation of both wealth and power, our tech oligarchy seems to be running out of luck. Newly issued IPOsUber, Lyft and Slackare losing values at breathtaking rates, while others in the on-desk…

The web has arguably been the biggest driver of economic and technological innovation in the 30 years since its invention. It has not only lowered barriers to publishing information and accessing that information, it has also changed peer-to-peer communicatio…

Capitalism, Alone: the future of the system that rules the world

Telangana State Road Transport Corporation employees on Tuesday staged a massive dharna at the Jubilee Bus Station as their indefinite strike entered its 18th day. A phalanx of supporters, employees and workers of opposition parties, including the BJP, the C…

The Outer Worlds is the you got chocolate in my peanut butter of RPGs. Obsidian, a developer thats made sequels to both BioWares Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Bethesdas Fallout 3, has merged those two distinctive flavors, and they taste great t…

Game of Thrones is a television series based on the storylines of A Song of Ice and Fire, set in the fictional Seven Kingdoms of Westeros and the continent of Essos. The series chronicles the violent dynastic struggles among the realm’s noble families for the…

The Robinhood effect popped up again, as Schwab slashed its stock commissions to zero and forced TD America, E-trade, Interactive Brokers, Ally Invest, and Fidelity to follow suit over the next few days. Schwab called this the zero commission brokerage war, o…

President Donald Trump rebukes CNN reporter Jim Acosta during a news conference at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 7, 2018. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Al Drago The mainstream media increasing appears much like the classic tale of the boy wh…