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  • Cold War 2.0: On Cyberkinetics

    21 March 2021 Probably Western Civilisation has at the moment the best set of institutions, which is why it has managed to keep ahead of the Game through two world wars and the world’s first ever multidecadal strategic game of stare, where two sets of military systems stared down at each other with ballistic missiles, Read more

  • Indicus accounts: Invisible or Irradiant -The Grand Trunk Road

    20 March 2021 We must delineate clearly between the desire to update our understanding of history which is a genuine academic pursuit vis-à-vis revisionism, which is more like how emotions cloud human memory, where gaps of memory and actual events are distorted and filled by our imaginations. Currently I find globally two cultural stalwarts as Read more

  • Indicus accounts: Invisible or Irradiant? The Kala Pani Trap!

    18 March 2021 Sometimes too much of a good thing can be good for nothing. What India has demonstrated is a certain set of situations where our responses were unfortunately viewed by people in India and abroad as either Western or Oriental, not characteristic Indian. Much of the efforts of scholars like Surendranath Dasgupta, the Read more

  • Quad Bloc- Back with a bang?

    13 March 2021 This is the Ides of March or is it something far more overwhelmingly compelling? President Biden had a full fledged Quad Bloc Anti China coalition meeting before his top diplomat went to Alaska to meet with his Chinese counterpart. Loaded dice? Or is this a tear that was darned double quick so Read more

  • Tandem or Tandava? Options to Check China.

    11 March 2021 In what can be called a flurry of long overdue diplomacy and policy intent, we can see India, China and USA talk as if by turn or tandem about the issues that engage them. It is really surprising that when the Chinese PLA presence in Ladakh still continues in sectors other than Read more

  • Cancel Culture? Corrective Arch of Civilisation.

    10 March 2021 I was not surprised to hear that Piers Morgan was getting the boot after his comments disparaging Meghan Markle on ITV’s morning show. I have often felt that if television and print media needed one boot right now, it is to boot out Mr Rupert Murdoch, to banish this evil person from Read more

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