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  • Nations or Notions- Lessons from Dhaka 16 December 1971

    15 December 2021 There is always so much to deliberate about the vivisection of India as a composite commons into a partition of Islamic and ‘secular’ Hindu majority state by the British when they offered her Independence. There are volumes written about the aftermath of Partition, the deadly dance of death that visited the subcontinent Read more

  • Corona Chronicles- Omi, Omni, Ominous Cron- New Post Corona World?

    13 December 2021 If any thing, this much is clear that the new multiple variant corona that is carrying nearly 50 variations in the Spike Protein region of the virus, variations that were initially suspected to impart extreme virulence to the germ, but which now appears to impart the virus with the potential to become Read more

  • Accidental Departure- CDS Reforms?

    10 December2021 While it is always too early to write about the legacy of a person who donned the mantle of India’s first CDS, General Rawat, was as much a person of his circumstances as he was an artful survivor of the system that produces India’s military bureaucracy and what we call as ‘leadership’. That Read more

  • Putin’s Double Thrust- The Indian Cart

    6 December 21 It is not something that one could expect from many leaders, but Putin as President has always been exceptional. This is what he does and where he makes his daring do such a normal feat of his presidency so far. Akin to riding bare horse, bare chested, or what have you, Putin’s Read more

  • From A Prism of Premises- Taiwan’s Identity by Circumstances

    3 December 2021 Taiwan is in the news for some time now, yet, for stranger tides that we are in, it is actually the beneficiary of much happening, which is not of its making. If there is something called ‘Universal Conspiracy’ which Paulo Coelho wrote about in his ‘Alchemist’, then it is working now to Read more

  • South China Sea- The Tuna Block Lessons

    1 December 2021 For those who read this, the familiarity with 9 dash lines, the ruling by Permanent Court of Arbitration in 2016 against the 9 dash line claims of PRC /CPC China, and the background of Chinese attempts to build islands out of shallow shoals and reefs to boost her territorial claims in these Read more

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