I am a people’s person; I like to be with people. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to be connected with my country and work for my country abroad at the same time. – Devyani Khobragade on why she joined the Indian Foreign Service Source: Indian Panorama Senior Indian diplomat and cutie […]
In a long life spent mostly poring over words, few ideas have stuck a chord with me like political philosopher Hannah Arendt’s famous concept of Banality of Evil. Countless articles and several books have been written on Hannah Arendt and her concept of Banality of Evil. In 2012, an eponymous biographical movie Hannah Arendt, directed […]
The Obama White House received another blow with the public petition to Pardon Edward Snowden hitting the 100,000 milestone. Pardon Edward Snowden petition was created on June 9, 2013 after it became known that Snowden was the fearless leaker of information on the U.S. National Security Agency’s illegal spying on the American people. The Right […]
Get over it! Not withstanding the anger of millions of Americans over large-scale government spying, there will not be any change. Not one whit. Because the beneficiaries from the spying operations will not allow change. Helpless Americans America’s intelligence operations have been outsourced to private entities like Booz Allen and several hundred other companies. Whether […]
We live in a world full of small men. Fortunately, there are still some brave, honorable people like Edward Snowden who through their actions make the world a better place for all of us. Snowden, 29, a former employee of the CIA, works for defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton as an Infrastructure Analyst for the […]
A new media report by the Guardian and Washington Post newspapers reveals that America’s leading technology companies including Apple, Microsoft, Google, AOL, Microsoft, Facebook, PalTalk, YouTube and Skype have completely violated the trust hundreds of millions of Americans have reposed in these technology companies. Of the nine companies that are part of PRISM, the three […]