21ST CENTURY CHINA: GROWING POWER OF THE GROWLING DRAGON

May 22, 2021

President Xi Jinping’s China is displaying superpower ambitions. China is determined to secure that position – beg, borrow, steal, coerce or kill. And one very clever and completely conceited programme is establishing China Standards 2035. In a world of high technology, every newer invention or application needs to be set...

21ST CENTURY CHINA: FIRE-BREATHING GROWL OF THE NEW, MENACING DRAGON

May 21, 2021

DRAGON FROM THE EAST Dragon is a symbol for fire breathing serpentine beast that can fly in from nowhere and create chaos in moments. Mythology is filled with that. Cinema has used it so effectively. A flick of the armoured tail of the dragon could erase towns and villages. And...

Heralding Sweet Revolution

January 16, 2021

“That land is barren, whose air falls silent of the buzz of the bees.” Small things affecting our world in a big way is not a new perception. We know how micro-nutrients in ever small quantities influence biomass production, how mosquitoes and insects can cause and spread pandemics and how...

The Khadi model of sustainable development in the time of a pandemic

April 25, 2020

In the past two centuries, millions have been killed by flu, plague and similar pandemics and you will notice they all coincided with the post-industrialisation era that also led to massive urbanisation. Textile industry and textile market are prime examples of industrialisation and urbanisation. And during an event of pandemic,...