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Hot Turkey: Ottomanesque Erdogan is now a Protector of Europe?
27 July 2021 I use the term ‘Hot Turkey’ to refer to an abrupt switch from negative dependency to a positive force. If Cold Turkey is a phrase conventionally used to describe sudden stopping of smoking or spirits, by an addict, then Hot Turkey would be an abrupt taking up of a substance by a Read more
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Chinese Westward Thrust- Nerves or Swerves?
27 July 2021 One never imagined that President Xi would prove to be what he has…like the proverbial chess board where the knights advanced with pawns only to retreat and make space for bishops and rooks, castling to create a fortress, rather than the initially ferocious advance across the white half, he has actually made Read more
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A Break That India Needs
25 July 2021Not very much in terms of how the state of play is, yet, when you are hoping that flux will reveal a pathfinder, and you end up nearly a year later with more of the dreaded flux, your worst case scenarios fructifying in unedifying manner, it would seem that an ageless civilisational nation, Read more
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Pegasus: A Storm of Mythical Proportions?
20 July 2021 A mythical winged steed that was per legend born from the union of Poseidon a Varuna equivalent who was also the God of Horses, and a Gorgon Medusa, one of three such hideous creatures that had serpents for strands of hair, who were winged females human like. So if we don’t delve Read more
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#ClimateChallenge:Precipitation
19 July 2021 What must convince the ‘folk’ that climate change is catastrophic, than a few gallons of rain that wash away their very life time’s efforts to build a ‘nest’? In Germany and Belgium, reeling from ‘unprecedented’ deluge in 48 hours, valleys were washed away, well laid towns were converted into mud slats, intersecting Read more
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Death of a TruthKeeper
Remembering Danish Siddiqui 17 July 2021 What the Taliban did not know, was the backlash of killing a journalist? That as war correspondents and photographers of conflict areas and conflicting narratives, did Danish Siddiqui not know how much he was putting himself to risk? Deep within the various tributes that are now flooding Twitter about Read more