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 […]
Category: China
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 […]
22 April 2021 The Chinese are not just harassing the Taiwanese, they are actually testing concepts they have hitherto simply studied in paper or observed the other Carrier operators conduct, including that of her western neighbour India, because China despite her tall claims of historical naval prowess and other revisionisms, knows the truth more than […]
11 April 2021This is obviously the more sense of deja vu that any observer of the IOR can lay claim to, a US Fleet vessel of the notorious 7th ( notorious from the subcontinental subconsciousness of 1971) when the flag bearer vessel is announcing https://www.c7f.navy.mil/Media/News/Display/Article/2563538/7th-fleet-conducts-freedom-of-navigation-operation/ its presence to India.Indian social media has responded to the […]
03 April 2021 If you can put partisan politics aside for a moment, then you can actually look at the Burns-Rahul virtual tête-à-tête as perhaps the biggest conversation India and the US had in recent times, which was done in the public domain.It was a very adult conversation, one where the seasoned diplomat was engaging […]
02 April 2021 This one has a lot of what analysts call ‘wheels within wheels’! The Russian presence in the Eurasian Continental is one which we cannot ignore, no matter how much Chinese lay claim to the honours of being the titans, for reasons of history, reasons of character of the people and most importantly […]
31 March 2021 No analyst could have predicted the pace at which America has returned to the global arena under President Biden. It was as if, Trump WH had just switched off and to get America back in all that Biden had to do was to switch it back on, I can imagine even that […]
26 March 2021 I have to say that I never imagined how Russia could be considered European power when she lay stretched across Asia right upto the Bering Straights! It is one geopolitical map that always piqued me, especially when the Russo Japanese War was described as frankly one between European established power vis-à-vis a […]