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 […]
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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. […]
10 June 2021 Many military experts feel that the Nagorno Karabakh campaign was the first time a fully AI enabled weapon was used by the Azeris to gain tactical advantage over the Armenians, one from which the Armenians never quite recovered- Use of drones that were actually hovering/ loitering munitions, that were fire and forget […]
09 June 2021 I am no student of mandarin, yet, I am told that the sounds that are made by characters were once variant from region to region, much like how in Tamil country or in the Hindustani heartland, the lore says that the language transforms from every village precinct to the next. ( Scholars […]
08 June 2021 You can say that media will keep debating all the wrong things, without even looking up print media or even the chancing channel surfing, only because, you know come what may, no discussion or opinion is going to deliberate on the matrix of what was and is, the reality of this pandemic […]
06 June 2021 There cannot be a more significant day in the recent history of our world as the Normandy Landings, Operation Overlord as it was coded. If 1944 appears distant, popularly called D Day, few would have imagined how antisemitism that led to the horror of the Jewish Holocaust would now see the face […]
25 May 2021 We knew this Climate of Strategic Uncertainty had been called into operation when China discarded her decades old ‘peaceful rise’ policy and switched to what has been called ‘aggressive revisionism’ which manifested as Wolf Diplomacy and PLA Exercises. In 2013, Ladakh which is today a clear zone of intransigence, came to the […]
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