by Aseem Gupta | Oct 12, 2026 | Mind, Psychology & Human Behavior
You pick up your phone to check a message, and twenty minutes later, you’re watching videos you never intended to see. You put it down, return to whatever you were doing, and almost immediately feel the urge to pick it up again. Meanwhile, the book you wanted to...
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 10, 2026 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
Venezuela sits on approximately 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, more than any other country in the world. In theory, that extraordinary natural wealth should have given the country the financial resources to build a prosperous, stable economy. Instead,...
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 4, 2026 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers is the tenth novel in Dav Pilkey’s wildly popular children’s superhero series. Published by Scholastic in January 2013, the book takes George Beard, Harold Hutchins, and their...
by Aseem Gupta | Sep 20, 2026 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Legend of Suheldev: The King Who Saved India is a 2020 historical novel by Amish Tripathi, written in collaboration with the Immortal Writers’ Centre. Set in eleventh-century India, it follows a young prince whose brother is killed during Mahmud of Ghazni’s attack on...
by Aseem Gupta | Sep 14, 2026 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
Canada supplies the United States with millions of barrels of oil every day, provides much of the fertilizer used by American farmers, and delivers electricity to homes and businesses across the northern states. These are not luxury products that Americans can simply...
by Aseem Gupta | Sep 6, 2026 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers is the ninth novel in Dav Pilkey’s illustrated children’s series, published by Scholastic in 2012. Despite its title, the book is less concerned with the return of a familiar supervillain...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 31, 2026 | Political Theory, Governance & Ideology
In 1950, Sukumar Sen, a mathematician and senior civil servant, became India’s first Chief Election Commissioner. His assignment was extraordinary: organise a national election for a country with approximately 173 million eligible voters, most of whom could not...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 23, 2026 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary, published by Ballantine Books in 2021, begins with a man waking inside a spacecraft without knowing his name, his location, or why two other people are lying dead nearby. As he struggles to reconstruct his identity, he discovers...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 22, 2026 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
In the middle of Central Asia, surrounded by vast deserts, stands one of the world’s most unusual capitals. Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, is filled with gleaming white marble buildings, enormous golden statues, monumental government complexes, and...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 17, 2026 | Political Theory, Governance & Ideology
For years, everyday life in El Salvador was governed by invisible boundaries. Residents of one neighborhood could risk their lives by entering another. Small businesses paid extortion money to criminal gangs, families feared that their children would be forcibly...
