27 April 2022 The word from the front is best described as ‘fog of war’. In this week gone by, the world must have noticed how 2 months have passed, a campaign of manoeuvre has now altered into one where attrition has happened in a few places. What now even the West acknowledges is that […]
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22 April 2022 It was very rare for a reticent and former Prime Minister to write about India as being at the cross roads of global opportunities that arose from the flux that this global commons experiences in the face of Ukraine. Dr Manmohan Singh writes about the prospects of India as a peaceful democracy […]
18 April 2022 Chronicling an ongoing conflict is never an easy thing, especially, when you are a passionate peacenik, an idealist, a person of a very tolerant and all embracing creed that relies on the mysticism of Cosmic Dancer and his teaching about directly experienced oneness. Yet, the very Cosmic Dance is called the Tandava […]
29 March 2022 The larger contours of this current conflict lie in what is simply an ‘understanding of history’. If the Russians view Ukraine as their ‘motherlode’ of culture, as once an integral part of Russia with Odessa rivalling St Petersburg, and the Russian Naval Fleet itself headquartered for centuries at Sevestapol and calling itself […]
25 March 2022 When initially analysts were writing of Russia’s Special Military Operations in Ukraine, they were of the view that Putin wanted to simply overthrow the Ukrainian regime led by President Zelensky and replace it with a pliant one. There was a rider to this, which said that the easier this was done, the […]
18 March 2022 . I wonder if many from India would today have paused their celebrations with the ‘riot of colours’ to reflect on the horrors that are visiting Ukraine. I engaged with some analysts abroad to explain that the very Indians who once were pained with the haunting words that alluded to Indian braves […]
15 March 2022 We have seen now in the meanwhile, how the campaign in Ukraine is afoot. Presently Russian forces are now widening their military arc, moving swiftly to target Western Ukraine with airstrikes in Yavoriv which hosts a centre for military training for UN peacekeeping where until the US pull out, Florida National Guard […]
12 March 2022 Few people can understand this predicament than perhaps Tamils…as one of the continuously speaking lingo ethnic groups in the world, who have held out against proselytisation of all forms, retaining their own culture, religious denomination, their medicine, their art, drama and literature, one of the greatest balancing acts that this people have […]
9 March 2022 Never have I had to pause, because, my muse was driving me to morbid conclusions, those that I have only dread and regret for. When one analyses strategic sweepstakes, one must take the utmost cautions, even while painting a scenario of war, that the wishful thinking that this oeuvre begets is not […]
2 March 2022 There are many who were fairly surprised by the fact that we are now into a clear conventional military campaign against Ukraine waged by Russia, a war that perhaps only Biden Administration saw clearly as coming. We are now well into the second week of active hostilities. What ever one saw, depending […]