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Stands upon their heads: Equalising Prejudices
15 June 2020 #BlackLivesMatter Right now across the world, we find that after the murder of Mr George Floyd at the hands of a policeman in Minneapolis, the seizing of a momentum to undertake a revision of the past. For all those protestors who are pulling down statues of Columbus or any of the Confederate… Read more
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#Covid19: Inflections
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
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China’s incrementalism and Indian pygmy sensibilities
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
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#ICantBreathe: The Humanity of Protest
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
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The Tables on Tibet: SinoIndian Fulcrum
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
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#Covid19: An Operating Strategy
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