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The following is a piece I wrote for Newscentral24x7 as part of a series depicting the parallels between Nazi Germany and present day India. It was published on the 10th…
Review: Infinity War
Ten years seems like a rather long time to tell a story. Infinity War is the MCU’s 19th movie. As far as Hollywood goes, that is a ridiculous amount of…
Review: Black Panther
Confession: I’ve always thought that Black Panther is kinda lame. To me, he has always been the poor man’s Batman. I cant help but see the character as Marvel’s attempt…
Book Review: The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (Douglas Murray)
Few things can hijack a conversation quicker than saying the words “Islam” and “Immigration” in the same sentence. The subject of radical Islam and what it does to its host…
The LexValidus Show Episode 3: “Cold War Redux”
It is ironic that the first time I heard about the Cold War was on the day that it ended. It was the day the USSR finally collapsed. Suddenly, it…
The LexValidus Show Episode 2: “Kryptonite”
The first time I heard the phrase “India is a rising superpower” was in 1998. The country had just crashed the nuclear party by conducting a series of detonations at…
Update: Podcast episode 2
This is a “Good news, bad news” situation. I had the second episode of the podcast ready to be uploaded on the 27th as planned. Or so I thought. What…
Political Yoga
A country that’s had delusions of becoming a global superpower since the 80s, that cant wait to label every bumbling act by it’s duplicitous PM as “progressive”, that gleefully prosecutes…
Introducing, The LexValidus Show!
Ever have one of those days where you think you might have bitten off more than you can chew? I’ve been having one of those. Rather, I’ve been having a…
The Democracy algorithm: How much should a single vote count for?
What if the strength of a democracy was decided not by its history, institutions, transparency or even its people? What if it was decided by an algorithm? The question popped…
