High quality nose-tapping

Some high-quality nose-tapping by China hawks in the US. …the suggestion by the Republican senator Tom Cotton, a hawk regarding the Chinese threat, that Beijing could opt to attack Taiwan as early as next year. Cotton noted that Russia invaded and occupied Crimea in 2014 just days after it hosted the Winter Olympics. China, he […]

Never again, again

Never again will I do something this foolish – I refer to the work I wrote about yesterday. I was up late, and then started work before breakfast – not as early as I planned, but still before breakfast. Thank heavens for the time difference. I sent off what I had and was very plain […]

Desperate working

I took on something I really shouldn’t have. When I am already overloaded with work I agreed to edit a research report on a topic with which I am completely unfamiliar, written by 6 different people none of whom have English as a native language (and none of whom share a language with each other), […]

Angry women

Both the countries for whom I have passports and some sense of allegiance continue to show where a woman’s place is. Pakistan, of course, remains the most hurtful and the most deadly. The Aurat March with its frankly anodyne slogan of ‘mera jism meri marzi’ – my body, my choice – in Pakistan ‘please don’t […]

End of Buddhism

I read an interesting article today, an academic history about the fading away of Buddhism in South Asia. It was a bit of a surprise to me, as it was about how the claims that Buddhism was eradicated by the coming of Islam – whether by outright temple destruction or simply by conversion from an […]