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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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New Age Tech & Old Economy
20 February 2021 For a long time the new spin offs from world wide web became companies of such fascinating edge of our seat innovation that they were the darlings of the global economy. Virtual, in,fact signalled the birth of this seamless world that the new global economic system sought, one that is borderless, not… Read more
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Texan Quixotic Tilt!
19 February 2021 Did any one thing that having a common border with Mexico or being the self styled ‘Lone Star’ state would leave Texas in a sense of splendid isolation, bring it grief on a ‘rainy’ day? Actually what should have been a normal winter of snows, a spell of white weather, has turned… Read more
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Bytes & Bites
17 February 2021 A scam of novelty appears to have burst in the RW firmament. First was a conventional expose of RW Troll army led by an aspiring star Mr Kapil Mishra, against whom a conscience keeper Mr Harsh Mander has gone to the Delhi HC to get the police to register an FIR for… Read more
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Thucidydes’ Trap? Why Greek algorithms pale in front of Tamil history.
15 February 2021 I will just stick my neck out to say that there is enough evidence in lore and historical plates, to prove that while British Isles offer glimpses of this in their history with wars between England, Scotland, Wales, Irish, before the United Kingdom came about, Tamil history never ended with such finality.… Read more
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Engaging versus disengaging: India’s Ground Reality
13 February 2021 It was surprising to see how many veterans as military experts took a view different from that of Lt Gen Panag who appeared to be along with Col Ajay Shukla one of the staunchest critics of the handling of Ladakh situation so far. Of course, it is said often, that the person… Read more