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  • 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

  • Corona Chronicles: India’s Toolkit

    24 May 2021 Like how the Lord said ‘let there be light’ and there was, India’s foremost leader, PM Narendra Modi had declared that citizens needed to be Atmanirbhar and Indians became that. While toolkit is a controversial document as of now, ever since climate activist and teen Greta Thunberg was associated with one and… Read more

  • Pandemic Pandora: The Costs upon the Family Cross!

    19 May 2021 One common thread running through now on social media and even mainstream media is how apparently whole families are affected this time by Covid19 in the current second surge in India whereas the same was not experienced last time round. There are several factors for that, which also offer us a set… Read more

  • Changing Mindscapes: India’s Covid Moments

    17 May 2021 Caught unawares India seemed to actually reprise the dire warnings that Rahul Gandhi had issued last year, one where the ‘tsunami’ word was used, where he made the example of people catching fish when the waters retreated. So now when the waters overwhelmed us in this surge of cases, where people were… Read more

  • Discomforting Answers Simple Questions: India’s Duet with Covid19

    13 May 2021 Was science ever at the heart of India’s Covid Strategy? This question is repeatedly raised in my mind, because, no amount of answering it waters it down. Not just the simple rejection of R0 or Rt number in the very early days of last February/March when the strategy to fight this pandemic… Read more

  • Vaccine Strategy: A Global Crux for India

    9 May 2021 We are now getting snippets of cases as anecdotal evidence of doctors who are dying of Covid19 after getting their shots! First was a case of a US based doctor who had come to India and died of Covid here, then there were reports of senior doctors of KGMU and now clinicians… Read more

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