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  • Pakistan: A Turn Toward India?

    12 February 2024 The decades after Independence, most Pakistanis would be polite and reticent with an attitude of quiet discomfiture that said- we are like that only, when they met their Indian counterparts. Especially for those who spoke Punjabi, the last few decades when Pakistan was involved with jehad and Afghanistan and spiralled downward economically, Read more

  • Gaza:Toward a Final Solution?

    11 February 2024 The Israeli bombing and sniping in Gaza Strip is unprecedented act of war against an entire population. Of course, before the current Post Cold War Epoch, the global experience has been the use of state violence against ‘non state actors’, which did involve bombing from the air too. In this list of Read more

  • State of Play: Putting it like Putin

    10 February 2024 War by other means, where the spoken word becomes mightier than the sword, is how decisions taken elsewhere in board rooms, in houses of representatives of the people, in warrens of bureaucratic maze, can upend or consolidate what is transpiring on the battlefields. The Tucker Carlson interview with President Putin being click Read more

  • Gaza Godzilla

    29 January 2024 The events have a way of hurtling past our ability to appreciate their essence, their shape shifting nature and their transformation of the world in which we think we are in, is such that we appear caught in a warp of our own, unable to square up what events have served us Read more

  • State of Play: Red Sea Storm

    18 January 2024 There is at play what we call the forces of unintended consequences, those small probables and pieces that when set upon, provoke a domino effect creating a series of ever rising ripples that finally create a tsunami. We don’t quite know when it all started, we can hazard a few educated guesses Read more

  • Hybrid Cold War:Shadow boxing Global South

    11 January 2024 The headlines are quite misleading, editorials are even more so. The narrative is now more clear on social media than in any other media, so much so that the virtual presence which is largely unverifiable has been weaponised by software giant India into what can be preliminarily dubbed as ‘troll diplomacy’. Indian Read more

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