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Today the world is heavily entangled.  WWW made this world into a global village. Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns have made this world a global living room. Interacting with each other over the net, people are collaborating like never before. Even before this current situation, we can see businesses flourishing in the world in a strange manner. An Indian company taking over a British car company. Chinese banks investing in Indian startups. We have already seen American jobs going offshore to places like India and the Philippines. And, many more. In Science-Technology too, we see an entangled world. In some sectors, you can see effect real globalization, transecting national borders, like in Logistics, Oil&Gas, and Outer-Space. Logistics companies like DHL, UPS collaborating with local operators all across the globe facilitating an interesting but complex web of service points. You will see, a team of Americans, Frenchmen, Indians, Pakistanis, Philipinos,...

Few years back, a martyred army officer's daughter, Gurmehar Kaur, wrote,  "Pakistan did not kill my Dad, War did." in the social media. Quite predictably, it was bombarded with tonnes of abuse and memes. BUT, in my view, she is damn right !! When I heard about soldiers dying on the Indo-China border, I wrote, "RIP Soldiers - Chinese and Indians." For me, due to some crazy politicians, some brain-washed young souls had to give up their lives. A nation maintains military and recruits these young men and women and costly defense hardware because it perceives an enemy. If all enemies can be eliminated, there is no need to maintain a costly military. It is like a medicine for an illness like obesity, that can be avoided in the first place. How to eliminate 'enemy'! Many people might say, one is in delusion if one says, 'enemy' is just a concept we create in our mind. It actually does not exist. It's only the 'difference in perspective' th...