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State Of The Union: America backing onto itself!
10 February 2023 When the Global Commons marched post Cold War, it was the breeze of liberal free market economics that carried the comity of nations through GATT and WTO, by establishment of common markets and free trade zones across regions. While the global economy had been pegged to the US Greenback for more than Read more
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State of The Nation: Spooked by a balloon
7 February 2023 One can actually admire how a few balloons of hot air can disrupt the way of meticulously orchestrated state craft that was to have led to the first ever Chinese Presidential meet up with the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. Diplomatic watchers will aver how remarkable such a face-off would have been, Read more
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#Ukraine: The Approaching Annuity
3 February 2023 When the war started in Ukraine, nearly a year ago, no one could have predicted that this would be a long drawn campaign as it turned out to be. Now guess estimates of Ukrainian conflict would stretch to 2024 winter, as we can see that the Russian strategy of militarily forcing Ukraine Read more
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SinoIndian Vortex: The Asiatic Moment
23 January 2023 Any parable about brothers, about unity from Panchatantra to Jatakas to folk lore will always inform us about how an outside influence disturbs the equilibrium between siblings and promote rivalry. Yet, I am tempted to draw from ancient Tamil history where a poet, Perunchitiranar wrote about two brothers who ruled their kingdom, Read more
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#Ukraine: Redrawing the Ideological Lines
18 January 2023 Wars have a way of upending what until then were dreary deliberations that meandered like a river into a desert…a nowhere point. Intellectual exercises at times, need this kind of an edge, a sheer drop from a precipice, where the option of further refining or digressing a point meets a fatalism, one Read more