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  • Player, Pop Star, Princess: Across Cultures, Regimes, Familiar Feminine Fate!

    28 November 21 It is very easy to say that women have been empowered. Many of so called civilisational barriers have no doubt been broken, the so called ‘glass ceiling’ including most recently when VP Harris was officiating as POTUS briefly when President Biden was under anaesthesia for a colonoscopy. We know that women have Read more

  • The Case for Necrobiomes…

    25 November 21 If one thought that vultures were integral to only Parsi Fire Temples, there is one documented secretive legend that comes from Tamil country, from a place called Thirukazhukundram. Folks of my grand parents generation used to regale us with stories about the temple, a bizarre and yet believable tale of a pair Read more

  • Indian Options in Contested Charters- A Pacifist Pragmatism?

    22 November 21 The world is unfortunately vastly more complex than when it was 70 years ago. The only evidence we have is the effort of some historians and analysts who have laid out how the West viewed South Asia, that was India before the colonials arrived, which they successfully dismembered into multiple countries instead Read more

  • Summitry Asymmetry Part 2- The Game of Narratives

    19 November 2021 What most people forget is that globally, history is what is a victor’s version. If the Nazi regime had not lost to the Allies, the entire eugenic construct of racial purity and superiority would have gained a different sales pitch, one not withstanding Jesse Owens and Lutz Long who demonstrated the elementary Read more

  • The Summitry Asymmetry- Biden Xi Summit

    18 November 2021 We have witnessed now for quite sometime, an era where post Cold War, there were Groups, G7, 8, 20, 77 etc. We have seen new bodies form since 1950s, such as ASEAN, SAARC, SCO, CIS, African Union, NAM, some that have now fallen clearly by the wayside, some that have lost their Read more

  • Australia- The Slippery Slope of Strategic Identity!

    10 November 2021 For a continent size island, located in Indo Pacific region, Australia has always played a second fiddle even after decades when Great Britain whose former colony she once was, proved to be a lesser power, after a brief skirmish over Falklands (1980s) with Argentina which the then British Government used to reclaim Read more

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