7 November 2024 If anybody was surprised that Kamala Harris was vanquished and the Dems lost the House and Senate along with the popular vote in what can be dubbed a Grand Slam for the Republicans, then they were victims of narrative mansplaining which the Western media houses have been masters at. As early as […]
18 October 2024 If you had met the blogger even last week, you would never get a hint of what is going to be penned and presented before you. A grist mill product, a set of conspiracies, hagiographies and contexts, that suffer from the sunlight of clarity that truth ordinarily bestows us with. If these […]
7 August 2024 Most of India and the world was caught unawares by how quickly over the weekend a PM of long standing was coerced into a corner and had to flee her country. Sheikh Hasina was not a garden variety leader, her credentials as the sole survivor of Banga Bandhu’s immediate family following the […]
The Chinese Experiment 15 July 24 The Constitution There was a moment in history, when it appeared that two ancient cultures, which were syncretic and which fortuitously had historical linkages through trade and transmission of knowledge, were to chart a similar trajectory when China after being mauled by her ‘Cultural Revolution’ and India stymied by […]
10 July 2024 Preamble: For close to half a millennia what we have seen are the rise to power of a force that is Christian in its religious beliefs, that is fuelled by Capitalism, and that has established the concept of Market Economics and Free Trade. Fundamentally, it is founded on the notions of superiority […]
9 July 2024 What should we call a movement that is reclaiming the human narrative and perspective from what has been largely a racist, religious, revisionist project spurred by imperialism and industrialisation of Western origin? How should we toast an author like William Dalrymple who is writing and talking about the fiction our modern history […]
8 July 2024 The weeks that have followed the ‘peace conference’ in Switzerland have revealed that Europe is no better in a frame of mind than it was before. However, critically information has come that America has resumed trade with Russia in key mineral and fuel imports, Uranium leading the way with near 1 billion […]
-A review of flashpoints and geostrategic fault lines 24 June 2024 The Summer Solstice is over, the inclement weather systems that batter our planet with increased frequency have become highly local issues, each community eking out an existential deal for itself. There is no larger picture, one that was flagged by Green Peace or by […]
30 May 2024 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru whose anniversary just went past us, would never have glimpsed World History in the manner of how these past 200 odd days have gone by. The respect, the adoration in fact, that Nehru had for Western values and its modern scientific culture, its sense of liberalism, freedoms and humanism […]
28 April 2024 When American Congress voted to allocate a further 61Billion $ US to Ukraine for this year, the aid came along with a 17 Billion $ US for Israel. Comparatively Ukraine received significantly reduced outlay for carrying out operations against the Russians who are now geographically redefining the SMO by regularly reducing Ukrainian […]
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