23 January 2023 Any parable about brothers, about unity from Panchatantra to Jatakas to folk lore will always inform us about how an outside influence disturbs the equilibrium between siblings and promote rivalry. Yet, I am tempted to draw from ancient Tamil history where a poet, Perunchitiranar wrote about two brothers who ruled their kingdom, […]
Category: China
18 January 2023 Wars have a way of upending what until then were dreary deliberations that meandered like a river into a desert…a nowhere point. Intellectual exercises at times, need this kind of an edge, a sheer drop from a precipice, where the option of further refining or digressing a point meets a fatalism, one […]
23 December 2022 The year of 2022 has been one which saw China emerge quietly, forsaking her previous stratagem of Wolf Diplomacy and overt trade heckling, moving softly as it were, to attain great advantages in the sphere of politico economic globalism. Compared to the fears of a Chinese melt down following the discovery of […]
22 December 2022 When this blogging site was started four years ago this day, the world appeared to be chugging along nicely. The concerns were of a Thucydides Trap that would see a joust inevitable between America and China no doubt, but an Indian and larger Asian promise seemed to be that glue that would […]
21 November 2022 Sometimes, it is better to allow events to swill before you handle it. At least, that is the fortune of analysts, whose role is observation and deduction, not reaction. When Poland was attacked, the G20 was in a huddle in Bali, a summitry which paled because of the absence of Vladimir Putin. […]
29 October 2022 When Putin announced the launch of Special Military Operations in Ukraine, unlike what the West assessed, it was evident that this was a logical step up in Russian efforts to convince Ukraine from going the NATO way. Where President Biden and his situation room did not act was where Kennedy as President […]
23 October 2022 When things look inevitable, they often are. Collective wishing away from vested corners does not cancel the march of the drumbeats of history. The events of even two years ago could not have envisaged such a smooth extension of President Xi Jinping of China beyond the stipulated two term limit set by […]
11 October 2022 Aphorism of Terror: To sow an IED you need just a pinch of fertiliser and a fertile mind! For weeks we have been offered a narrative of Russia withdrawing from key cities and towns all along the front of the newly declared ‘annexed provinces’ that consisted of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk […]
26 September 2022 Historians are always aware of how important information is, to shaping of morale and managing logistics of war. When the British fought to crush the rebellion that had sparked over greased cartridges in India, 1857 was called many things at that time, including perhaps the last hurrah of India’s royals with their […]
20 September 2022 One needs to look at history as a precedent and not as a font for hubris. Yet the casual views the two as alternatives of each, while the causal looks for the danger signs where from precedence one stumbles into hubris. The nature of the human is such that no individual who […]
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