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 […]
02 July 2021 On a day when ideologues from a university started a party, 100 years ago, to today, when the party is a country with an army to boot, on an eternal Long March to People’s Liberation, the contrast in ideals and ideas could not but be helped notice. It was founded under the […]
26 June 2021 For three days, I have been trying to meditate on what are the take aways from the Delhi meeting of members of JK polity with the Union Governmental leadership. This is no ‘all party meet’ to kickstart political process after it has stayed halted in the aftermath of the announcements of August […]
22 June 2021 Numbers can actually detract from this thread bare discussion, so I will skip it to the extent I can. I make conclusions ahead of the evidence that most countries are on the same wicket as far as Covid19 Pandemic numbers including economic ones are concerned, perhaps because, most political leadership is but […]
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Galwan- The year after!
16 June 2021 We can see how Indian strategic community, now appearing largely of military veterans and a few familiar names from civilian backgrounds chose to look back. You can discern three themes here- Galwan was a departure from hitherto fore, where Indian soldiers stood their ground to Chinese bullying tactics and forced heavy casualties […]
10 June 2021 In what can be called great tidings, the major nations that make up G7 other than USA reported a much needed return of confidence in their polity toward the Biden Administration, upwards of 70% as per PEW which is dramatic considering the pitifully low confidence American allies had expressed under Trump Administration. […]
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