Few will understand that what is happening in Pakistan is most unusual. From its early floundering foundational days, Pakistan as a ‘nationhood’ has been captive to a larger concept of persona unlike no other. In her initial days itself, the country became captive to vested interests, an elite that initially claimed her inevitability as a […]
24 December 2021 China has had a very exciting year. On the face of it, she finally managed all the markers for her ascendency to the Summit of Global Affairs, where she is now Equal with the reigning power, USA. Consider these events- 1 Anchorage Summit at Alaska 2. Exchange of ‘prisoners’ over the Huawei […]
22 December 2021 It is always that time of the year when you like to wrap things up, sort of Christmas gift wrap them, if you will, and hope that Santa will haul away to deliver…The biggest event of this year was supposedly the return of America from the wilderness President Trump had confined her […]
20 December 2021 If there was a lesson in how the West lost the war of keeping the peace after winning the battle defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War, it has been on relentless play for close to three decades now. If the Cold War denouement was a rare opportunity for America to […]
15 December 2021 There is always so much to deliberate about the vivisection of India as a composite commons into a partition of Islamic and ‘secular’ Hindu majority state by the British when they offered her Independence. There are volumes written about the aftermath of Partition, the deadly dance of death that visited the subcontinent […]
6 December 21 It is not something that one could expect from many leaders, but Putin as President has always been exceptional. This is what he does and where he makes his daring do such a normal feat of his presidency so far. Akin to riding bare horse, bare chested, or what have you, Putin’s […]
3 December 2021 Taiwan is in the news for some time now, yet, for stranger tides that we are in, it is actually the beneficiary of much happening, which is not of its making. If there is something called ‘Universal Conspiracy’ which Paulo Coelho wrote about in his ‘Alchemist’, then it is working now to […]
1 December 2021 For those who read this, the familiarity with 9 dash lines, the ruling by Permanent Court of Arbitration in 2016 against the 9 dash line claims of PRC /CPC China, and the background of Chinese attempts to build islands out of shallow shoals and reefs to boost her territorial claims in these […]
22 November 21 The world is unfortunately vastly more complex than when it was 70 years ago. The only evidence we have is the effort of some historians and analysts who have laid out how the West viewed South Asia, that was India before the colonials arrived, which they successfully dismembered into multiple countries instead […]
19 November 2021 What most people forget is that globally, history is what is a victor’s version. If the Nazi regime had not lost to the Allies, the entire eugenic construct of racial purity and superiority would have gained a different sales pitch, one not withstanding Jesse Owens and Lutz Long who demonstrated the elementary […]
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