11 August 2021 When President Trump’s account was suspended by Twitter, many lustily cheered, for the excesses of a false narrative that had such follower-ship needed taking down was the logic. Many argued, however that Twitter had no ombudsman, there was no natural justice in how the measure was undertaken, including a clearly one sided […]
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4 August 2021 Continuing with this vein of strategic rigidity, from Afghanistan’s Taliban woes, we can shift toward how the last seven years has been a series of mixed events, opportunities that were offered by the arrival on the national stage by Mr Modi as a person with no baggage, and his audacious attempt to […]
2 August 2021 The entire saga seems rather scripted, isn’t it? That if we read this modern piece of history in the making, it would appear as if this was a kind of ‘deja vu’, a redux of the charade, where one superpower first enters the scene and then is forced to exit by a rag […]
27 July 2021 I use the term ‘Hot Turkey’ to refer to an abrupt switch from negative dependency to a positive force. If Cold Turkey is a phrase conventionally used to describe sudden stopping of smoking or spirits, by an addict, then Hot Turkey would be an abrupt taking up of a substance by a […]
27 July 2021 One never imagined that President Xi would prove to be what he has…like the proverbial chess board where the knights advanced with pawns only to retreat and make space for bishops and rooks, castling to create a fortress, rather than the initially ferocious advance across the white half, he has actually made […]
16 July 2021 To paraphrase a popular quote on soldiering, for leadership, let us say, that Angela Merkel is one person about whom generations to come will write that ‘never has history owed so much to one person’! Like the Queen of England, yet not temporally a forever figure, as she remits office this year, […]
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Eastern Stirring: A Meiji redux?
15 July 2021 Japan as a country and polity is no stranger to self imposed isolation. The last pre industrial isolation was broken when the shogunate was replaced by what is popularly termed as the Meiji restoration. In the decades immediately after the 1868 restoration, Japan transformed herself, by placing telegraph lines, railways, forming a […]
13 July 2021 Prior to the Bismarck concept of nationhood, where culture and language populated ideally by a mono-ethnic people demarcated the nation state, it was rather common to see multi ethnic and multicultural in fact multi linguistic commons as a nationhood. Even if one takes the narrowest example of the British Isles as a […]
13 July 2021 The ancient concept of Chakravartikshetram uses a judicious mix of economic, social, cultural and military powers as attributes of one who desires to establish a chakravartam, which Sanskrit allows us to describe as sphere of influence. The concept of overlordship is actually more geopolitical in the Tamil concept of ‘mudi venthan’ with […]
HEADLINES From The Hindu on 29 June and 3 July 2021 say it all! 03 July 2021 We have had much of back and forth on the Jammu Air Force Base as well as some Army border posts, claiming the passes made by drones allegedly tossing some explosives that would have damaged the sensitive security […]
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