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  • #Covid19 Corona Chronicles: Kerala is still great! We all need to!

    08 March 2021 Shailaja Teacher can take a bow even now. It is not possible to sustain a campaign over a year is what folks will have us believe in India. Of course, God’s own country first responded with the memory and the strength of having dealt with Nipah an experience the rest of India Read more

  • The Quad: O’ Those Russians!

    07 March 2021 If one did see way back at the beginning of this millennium a potential for the US to seek partnerships with India as a strategic necessity to counterbalance China, what the decades after that has shown is how an erstwhile ally at the time of World Wars, of the Western Compact, Russia, Read more

  • Indicus Plot: A Rear View from 2004

    India-US- China: THREE IS Company or Crowd? Introduction 1. From patrol boats patrolling the Malacca straits(i), to building 5 million tonne 15 day oil demand as crude storage at Mangalore and Vizag, to acquisition of PHALCONs, gun locating radars , heavy artillery (Bofors), Hum-vees(ii), Hawk Jet trainer, Aircraft carrier Gorshkov, to rationalising the strategic command Read more

  • Indicus Plot- Counter to Sinovium?

    03 March 2021 What to make of the spectacle of 600000 doses by Sinovac arriving on a Chinese military aircraft to Philippines Vilamor air base, received by President Duterte. The Chinese ambassador made a triumphant statement on the occasion, one that echoes strangely with those made in colonial era by British Residents in Indian Principalities. Read more

  • Colombo chutney?

    27 February 2021 From where India looks, she has lost her Tamil lever with Lankans long ago, when the IPKF became a souring point, and when late Rajiv Gandhi was killed along with score others in Sriperumbudur in 1991. It is actually a sign of immature leadership of our country that we allowed ourselves to Read more

  • Coups with Chinese Angle?

    25 February 2021 In what can be characterised as Great Power ploy, President Biden has chosen to moot an alliance of Democracies, simply as an ideological counter to CCP China which is a regime that can be loosely characterised as Non Democratic. What observers are unable to see, Fareed Zakaria included, is that Biden strategy Read more

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