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If he did, he wouldn't say. Sneaky fellow.

I had quite a conversation this evening with someone whose views I respect. He summarised the situation by saying that Putin had cause but executed his response horribly, and has guaranteed that Russia will have no friends. He thinks Russia will lose strategically, although she might win...

What a heart-touching story! My principle has been never to comment on Pakistani internal affairs, or on their politics, or their religious views, but to concentrate on war-related topics, and, in the other place, on matters concerning Indo-Pakistan relations and Indian internal affairs. That...

It's none of his business what a private citizen decides to do with himself. Chidambaram is OK, I guess, although the clouds and mists around him are getting denser and swirling around faster and faster, but this little punk opining on things is a bit difficult to bear.

The Chinese are, and they seem to be working very closely with the Russians.

Impossible to sift the truth from rumours in this utterly confused situation.

@Nilgiri From 17:00 onwards,

I smiled at the sly reference to Lalan Fakir in the first cycle; after all, Tagore got sufficient exposure to Lalan's songs and his music in his Shilaidaha Kuthibari; there was every opportunity to do so, as Lalan Shah was himself a resident of Kushtia most of his recorded life. Nirmalendu...

We had so many opportunities and we blew every single one of them. At least in this compromise let us claw back some credibility. We should have been as busy as beavers connecting every possible commercial hub in Nepal to our ports and international airports, connections that should have...

This is the most difficult part of a democracy for people from a different kind of constitutional system to understand. I am sick of explaining that a particular government, with its promises and its threats, and its public posturings and private affiliations, does not represent a shift in...

Cargo ships travelling at 25 knots!!!! I'm sure you know what you're saying, but I'm stunned. Some modern frigates travel at that speed.

A very weird chapter, when Russia/USSR used her 'neutrality' towards Japan to flood war materiel in through Vladivostok. I wonder if Japan's hilarious attack on the Aleutians was a peevish response by some intransigent elements at Tokyo to send a signal to the Russians.

I sympathise, but even given my animosity towards the Sangh, these are special cases, and I wouldn't blame the lunkheads for whatever happens to these special people.

I feel like publishing my entire collection of AM I, AM II and AM III one after the other, one a day.

I knew it as the Island of Leuke, the White Island, in the Black Sea, where Thetis set up a parallel Endymion for her son. I didn't know that it was Snake Island. Interesting!

Have you heard the iconic Dave Brubeck version?

Those were the original bearskins, that the Guards of the British monarch took for themselves after defeating them at Waterloo. Napoleon really pampered his Guards.

Oh, if we allow ourselves to be seduced by the story, it winds further and further back, back to Thetis being a powerful goddess in her own right and not just a sea-nymph, all the way into the identity of the Myrmidons and their loyalty - it's difficult to stop. Both my father and I, 30 years...

And here, @Vaggos, is a VERY subtle cross-cultural one - @Nilgiri is doing us from a height of 35,000 feet. Obviously, it was the son of Thetis dipped into a mystic river at birth. His other reference was to the hero Karna, born out of wedlock, abandoned by his mother, brought up by a...

....and, @Vaggos, the other half of the reason why I was shocked. The shock of recognition.