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8 June 2020 Now that 150 days are well past us, we know what the pandemic is. We particularly know that as of now, either the strains or subtypes of this virus discovered so far are not clinically significant or right now, is not our priority in so far as the vaccination development programmes that Read more

3 June 2020 Introduction: I cannot say when China officially switched her stance from peaceful rise to what her current posture has become, but clues for it can be found as early as 2003-4, after that brief probing in the 80s when India countered with Operation Checkerboard in the Arunachal. China has always respected those Read more

2 June 2020 It is not in the hands of those who are unaffected by the circumstances, buffered by resources and information at their disposal to determine the responses of those who are disadvantaged. Any student of history will be clear headed if not clairvoyant that the reaction of a suppressed or oppressed segment of Read more

26 May 2020 #LadakhFlashpoint China is again in the news, not just for trade sanctions against Australia, or the WHO resolution to probe the origin of the coronavirus, an increasing call for efforts to decouple from China has seemingly acquired a momentum of its own. In the midst of this, we have President for life Read more

24 May 2020 Indians are slowly veering to the view that they have to live with this contagion. As a people who have sufficiently misinterpreted the founding Principle of Dharma, which the Karmic Theory, reducing it to a form of fatalism for some time now, they are ready to blame their fates rather than try Read more

22 May 2020 Disease mortality is determined by a metric called mortality rate which is basically a statistic of how many per thousand suffered from the disease, which was identified as the underlying or immediate cause of death over a defined period of time. Why it is important is because it makes a particular infectious Read more