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  • Tug for the Asiatic Heart! India & Central Asiastans

    31 January 2022 The much awaited first ever summit between the Central Asian Republics and India happened virtually on 27 January 2022. There are many key take aways, the first being, that this was the first time the present government has made a substantive engagement with this neighbourhood, with Mr Modi restricting himself earlier with Read more

  • Germanic Grandstanding Vs Admirable Admiralty!

    24 January 2022 What diplomacy does is to dilute the harshness of truth or reality with sophistry of word play, couched with jargon and ceremony that attempts to insulate it. The problem with diplomacy is not that it misunderstands it’s role, but that it takes its role too seriously. The problem currently besetting Western Diplomacy Read more

  • The Faux News: Decimating Democracy byte by byte.

    20 January 2022 Manufactured outrage is now the new spin. If one can trace the underpinnings of fascism, the call would end with the inevitable conclusion that places ‘revisionism’ and rank ‘nationalism’ were actually pillions to a larger sense of ‘victimhood’. It would seem that Democracy as we now practise it, would need clear safeguards Read more

  • Joker in the pack- Australia & Novak: Open & Shut!

    When this is being written, the presence of Serbian Tennis icon and Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic would have been deported physically from Australia after losing a near fortnightly battle against the immigration authorities who locally found him run foul of their rules. If you hear sports coverage of the case, the hysterics are clear. Read more

  • The Harvest Season- India’s Choices

    There is only so much a polity can pursue at a given time, so currently from the issues of the status of Kashmir, the SC has decided to take up the issue of Prime Minister’s Security, while also accepting a plea regarding the ‘hate speech’ aspect of the Dharam Sansads that sprouted across Gangetic India, Read more

  • Turkey-Lira in a Spidery Lair

    For some time now, we know that Erdogan as President sees himself as the all-knowing Caliphate Ottoman of the modern world. His successes include his wipeout of Turkey’s opposition both ethnic and non ethnic intelligentsia based, by his staged coup and other judicial make over moves, his use of Turkey’s nascent industrial capacity to create Read more

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