Photographs


This is another typical street scene in Jaipur. People selling fruits and vegetables along the side of the road. It was an orgy of color and hard to resist eating!

This is another typical street scene in Jaipur. People selling...

Jaali at Albert Hall Museum

Jaali at Albert Hall Museum

Jaali in the interior of Humayun's Tomb. It was late in the day with the sun lowering in the sky. This presented some great opportunities for watching the light change through the screens.

Jaali in the interior of Humayun's Tomb. It was late in the...

The India Gate the site of the Indian Army's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier taken near sunset. The remarkable memory from walking around this park is how clean it is and how dirty the air was.  ...

The India Gate the site of the Indian Army's Tomb of the Unknown...

These are the symmetrical gardens in front of the Khas Mahal or marble palace. A note Mr. Bubbles explained to us is that this used to be the ball room, assembly area, and used for other lar ...

These are the symmetrical gardens in front of the Khas Mahal...

War by Other Means — Building Complete and Balanced Capabilities for Counterinsurgency

I have an RSS feed to my desktop of newly published Rand reports. I tend to read the summaries instead of the long studies, as even a student of the world doesn’t need to know the detail invovled in 700 pages treatises on a particular subject.

The report cited in the title, War by Other Means [...]

The Latest Mindfuck

Hope is defined as ‘a wish or desire accompanied by confident expectation of its fulfillment.’

It is not clear to me how the ugliest and most wasteful vehicle ever made, one that goes against every reasonable trend in the world, is the root cause of why we are fighting a war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and [...]