Anoop Verma's Diary: Itihasa & Darshana

A blog dedicated to philosophy, history, politics, literature

Thursday, 2 October 2025

Between the spinning wheel and the steel mill: Gandhi and Nehru’s contrasting visions of India

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Jawaharlal Nehru is often remembered as Mahatma Gandhi’s chosen disciple, yet the two men embodied strikingly different Indias. Gandhi’s Ind...
Saturday, 27 September 2025

The Brute Force of Reason

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Ayn Rand: From reason to a cult of ego that glorified adultery & abortion “Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to t...
Sunday, 14 September 2025

Walls or renewal? The paradox of conservative civilizations


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Morality, though revered as an absolute by many philosophers and preachers, is in truth a subjective construct. Its edicts bind the conscien...
Sunday, 7 September 2025

From Lenin to Nixon: The fall of the dollar, the rise of a new world

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Soon after the 1917 Revolution, the Bolsheviks imagined that money itself could be annihilated. They saw Ruble as not a medium of exchange b...
Saturday, 6 September 2025

Beyond the enlightenment myth: Diversity as humanity’s first principle

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The dream of a universal human nature, so often invoked in the rhetoric of modernity, is not an ancient inheritance of mankind but a relativ...
Sunday, 31 August 2025

When tyranny and schizophrenia define nations: Beyond socialism & capitalism

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Socialism and capitalism, though clothed in the rhetoric of salvation, conceal within themselves the seeds of ruin. Socialism, by exalting t...
Sunday, 24 August 2025

The fountainhead of civilization: Why collectivism sustains culture

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Collectivism is the fountainhead of culture and civilization. The greater the refinement of a society, the deeper and more intricate are the...
Saturday, 23 August 2025

Arrow and the wheel: Two visions of history and time

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It is fashionable to say that history repeats itself. But if history were truly repetitive, then the future would be a mere echo of the past...
Saturday, 16 August 2025

History Is a harsher interviewer: Trump’s rhetoric, Putin’s war, and India’s insult

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I watched Hannity’s interview with President Trump and was struck less by what was asked than by what was carefully avoided.  Hannity, inste...
Friday, 15 August 2025

The end of entitlement: Europe’s problems are not the world’s problems

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Dresden after World War II bombing “Europe has to grow out of the mindset that Europe’s problems are the world’s problems, but the world’s p...
Thursday, 14 August 2025

When the dollar crumbles: The coming mega-debtquake

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The United States now staggers under a federal debt exceeding $37 trillion—yet President Trump speaks as though Washington’s coffers are fin...
Sunday, 10 August 2025

Democracy came later: The violent birth of Western supremacy

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“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converte...
Saturday, 9 August 2025

Orwell’s slogans, Asimov’s predictions, and America’s imperial present

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It is often said that George Orwell’s aphorism from 1984 —“War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength”—was a mirror held up to ...
Sunday, 3 August 2025

Fatal friendship: Why America can’t be trusted with long-term alliances

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" It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal. " ~ Henry Kissinger In an age where dipl...
Monday, 28 July 2025

The rise of nations, the decline of dissent: How Tiananmen paved the way for China's global ascendancy

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Deng Xiaoping The rise of China poses an enduring question: Can prosperity flourish without freedom? Can a world-class market economy be eng...
Sunday, 27 July 2025

Technologies rise, civilizations fall: On the slow decline of modern powers

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History does not listen to sermons. It does not genuflect before manifestos on human rights or bow to declarations of moral idealism. These ...
Saturday, 26 July 2025

The digital mirage: Freedom promised, serfdom delivered

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The digital revolution, so loudly heralded as humanity’s great leap into the future, may well be remembered as the most sophisticated scam o...
Thursday, 24 July 2025

The illusion of originality: On art, authenticity, and authority

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Why do we revere an original artwork more than an exact copy—especially when we cannot tell them apart? The preference is not aesthetic. A p...
Sunday, 20 July 2025

The heaven on earth that never came: The collapse of capitalist and communist mythologies

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For over a century, capitalism and communism have been locked in an ideological war—each claiming to have discovered the unbreakable laws of...
Saturday, 19 July 2025

From Pax Americana to Tax Americana: Debt, Power, and the Fall of American Empire

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Empires do not die with a bang—they default. No civilization in history has survived the moment its debts outgrew its power to collect. I fi...
Sunday, 13 July 2025

Truth and reason didn't build civilizations - Fictions and lies did

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“Truth alone triumphs”— Satyameva Jayate —stands enshrined beneath the national emblem of India, echoing an ancient Vedic ideal. But while t...

The four sons of Shiva: A cosmic symphony of dharma, power & grace

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In the vast ocean of Hindu cosmology, where the sacred and the symbolic coalesce, the sons of Shiva emerge as luminous archetypes—divine exp...
Saturday, 12 July 2025

In search of worthy adversaries: The strategic poverty of seeing Pakistan as rival

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“To be successful, you need friends; and to be very successful, you need enemies.” ~ Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight There is a d...
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