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 […]
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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 […]
22 April 2024 Apparently the night of 13 April belonged to Iran, but the night of 19 April could be the night that belonged not to Israel but to the Coalition of Common Sense. In what can be termed as explosive, Mr Pepe Escobar on X revealed that according to his Asian sources, an Israeli. […]
17 April 2024 At the time of writing, IDF is yet to retaliate against Iran’s fireworks in the sky a few days back. Many observed that it was a night of great significance, almost Biblical when in Moses’ miracles, first born in every house were smitten by the Lord God. For one sitting far removed […]
5 April 2024 Very clearly the air strike targeting the Iranian Embassy in Damascus, Syria, was a desperate Israeli ploy to divert attention from international opprobrium, especially peaking after the deaths of World Central Kitchen charity aid workers in the Gaza. Loss of Western civilian lives in that strike brought home a relevance that perhaps […]
23 February 2024 A moment comes, not rarely, but invariably, in the march of our times, when the dots connect, when a narrative weave is frayed by scrutiny, by the inherent fallacies it has threaded together, under the weight of contradictions of their individual threads. The story of Ukraine’s ‘War for Independence’ is a narrative […]