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Come September! The Afghan Opening.
15 April 2021 We can see how actually President Biden operates, in a sense that in all probability he gave his Russian counterpart a heads up over the withdrawal from Afghanistan. A series of exposes from the Inspector General in the US DoD, had led to a better understanding of the futility of the efforts Read more
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Corona Chronicles: Discordant & Distraught
13 April 2021 Two cases were widely discussed in social media and news media- one of a verbal assault on a Covid Administrator in a Government Hospital in MP and another of a youth dying in Bengaluru without gaining access to a ICU bed with ventilator. Both were actually related, as is the more recent Read more
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Mixed Signalling? The 7th Fleet FONOPS
11 April 2021This is obviously the more sense of deja vu that any observer of the IOR can lay claim to, a US Fleet vessel of the notorious 7th ( notorious from the subcontinental subconsciousness of 1971) when the flag bearer vessel is announcing https://www.c7f.navy.mil/Media/News/Display/Article/2563538/7th-fleet-conducts-freedom-of-navigation-operation/ its presence to India.Indian social media has responded to the Read more
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Corona Chronicles: Tragedy of the Commons
08 April 2021 If there is one major defining moment for this Pandemic it is actually the role of populism and by extension prejudices in the management of the Pandemic so far. More than a year later, one cannot do much on Twitter other than report a handle in categories other than what it should Read more
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Cold War 2.0: The Lavrov & Jaishankar Talks
07 April 2021 We can even call this a moment as one ‘when a veteran outflanked a neophyte’. When you have decades at the high table nurturing foreign policy, diplomatic stratagems and strategic calculus, as Mr Lavrov does, you can make the meeting https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/any-solution-in-afghanistan-without-taliban-runs-risk-of-failure-russian-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov-101617719480122.html between even two equals become a meeting of a ‘sounding board’. Read more
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Silver Linings, Gold Plated – Cast Conundrum
06 April 2021The Indian Scholastic system underwent a major change from whatever indigenous systems operated to the British system, which for context can be called Macaulay system. It was an effort to churn out Indians who were English in Heart and Mind, given to British Sensibilities and who would depict themselves in public life in Read more
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