DesiPundit

The impact and influence at any given time that the world’s current hegemonic power has over the rest of the globe is immense and often immeasurable; just watch the fascination with which media organisations cover US Presidential elections around the world; elections in which only a few hundred million will vote to choose a leader with the greatest global impact worldwide.

The Olympic Torch relay was interrupted in Paris today due to Pro-Tibet protest. If you wonder, why should you care then read The Buddha Smiled’s post on why Tibet still matters. Or rather why it should.

Meanwhile in the media news, Raghu Karnad shares a response by George Fitzherbert, a DPhil in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University, to an N.Ram editorial in The Hindu [earlier linked on DesiPundit].

We have to either officially endorse Tibet’s fight for freedom or at least condemn China’s crackdown on unarmed ethnic minority protesters before we can even think of making a political statement at the Olympics. Unfortunately, we’ve done neither.

Reading Vir Sanghvi and Karan Thapar’s op-eds in Hindustan Times, Namit blames India’s vacillating stand on the China-Tibet issue for the impending Olympic torch relay (PR) disaster in India.