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  • Chinese Characters- Conceal or Reveal?

    09 June 2021 I am no student of mandarin, yet, I am told that the sounds that are made by characters were once variant from region to region, much like how in Tamil country or in the Hindustani heartland, the lore says that the language transforms from every village precinct to the next. ( Scholars Read more

  • Corona Chronicles: The 5PM Realm of Affairs

    08 June 2021 You can say that media will keep debating all the wrong things, without even looking up print media or even the chancing channel surfing, only because, you know come what may, no discussion or opinion is going to deliberate on the matrix of what was and is, the reality of this pandemic Read more

  • Choke Points: India’s Global Footprint

    06 June 2021 There cannot be a more significant day in the recent history of our world as the Normandy Landings, Operation Overlord as it was coded. If 1944 appears distant, popularly called D Day, few would have imagined how antisemitism that led to the horror of the Jewish Holocaust would now see the face Read more

  • WMD: The Corona Whodunit?

    02 June 2021 It must be the most bizarre idea which over the days and months, got into textured layering and nuance that we are now witness to what can be called the acknowledging of the plausible…The origin of this SARS CoV2 has been such an humdinger! In a normal course of our human experience, Read more

  • Traditional versus Modern: Does The Twain Meet?

    27 May 2021 It is just a coincidence that today we can also pay homage to one personality whose presence in India’s modern history is as much a symbol of the welding of the past and present, as it was of the traditional and the modern- Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Unlike most ‘brahmin’ families of today, Read more

  • China’s Gamble: Set Pieces versus Mindset

    25 May 2021 We knew this Climate of Strategic Uncertainty had been called into operation when China discarded her decades old ‘peaceful rise’ policy and switched to what has been called ‘aggressive revisionism’ which manifested as Wolf Diplomacy and PLA Exercises. In 2013, Ladakh which is today a clear zone of intransigence, came to the Read more

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