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  • Merkel: The Guardian Angel of EU

     16 July 2021 To paraphrase a popular quote on soldiering, for leadership, let us say, that Angela Merkel is one person about whom generations to come will write that ‘never has history owed so much to one person’! Like the Queen of England, yet not temporally a forever figure, as she remits office this year, Read more

  • Eastern Stirring: A Meiji redux?

     15 July 2021 Japan as a country and polity is no stranger to self imposed isolation. The last pre industrial isolation was broken when the shogunate was replaced by what is popularly termed as the Meiji restoration. In the decades immediately after the 1868 restoration, Japan transformed herself, by placing telegraph lines, railways, forming a Read more

  • Notions & Nations: State as pinnacle of human organisation?

     13 July 2021 Prior to the Bismarck concept of nationhood, where culture and language populated ideally by a mono-ethnic people demarcated the nation state, it was rather common to see multi ethnic and multicultural in fact multi linguistic commons as a nationhood. Even if one takes the narrowest example of the British Isles as a Read more

  • Superpowerdom: How China holds up?

     13 July 2021 The ancient concept of Chakravartikshetram uses a judicious mix of economic, social, cultural and military powers as attributes of one who desires to establish a chakravartam, which Sanskrit allows us to describe as sphere of influence. The concept of overlordship is actually more geopolitical in the Tamil concept of ‘mudi venthan’ with Read more

  • Greek to Latin? The Indian Con-Wince.

     12 July 2021 Right now the fancy variants of concern of the SARS CoV2 virus are getting labelled in Greek alphabet, only here too, there is extreme reluctance to label them that way, because I guess the scientists do not wish to run out of options. So we had a ‘Delta Plus’ before we have Read more

  • A Tomorrow That Never Comes

     8 July 2021 A dystopian world is not difficult to conjure for the future, this being imagination and inspiration in parts, one that is actually brought about by lack of both in the present. Yet, the past year has been a series of such missteps and calculative fuss, an obsession with numbers and headlines, with Read more

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