13 February 2025 It was perhaps the most eagerly awaited Presidency, much like the ‘Return of the King’ myths that abound in popular fiction and folklore, and so far, Trump 2.0 has not failed at all. Most people who are not Trump loyalists chose Trump because the Democrats had signalled a continuity of Obama Biden […]
19 January 2025 As an analyst, this moment we are now seized in, is as rare as they come. It is perhaps a clearest evidence that a Polity that had been at the totem pole for as long as it could remember has suddenly found the ground beneath it shift and yield quite unintentionally overnight […]
10 November 2024 The year may still be some weeks in concluding, however some clear red lines have come about, some not really originating in this year, but cemented by events that occurred within the calendar of 2024 while the rest were simply what we have witnessed only here. News Spin: Noise is not enough! […]
5 October 2024 As a blog, a relatively prolonged absence could mean death of interest. For sometime now, a recalcitrance has gripped this space, since the ‘meat grinders’ and ‘meta’ narratives had become such a routine, that the very soul of the analyst was ensnared and benumbed, pausing as much for fresh air and hope […]
18 August 2024 The details are slowly making a clear outline, as clear as they can be when so proximate to events unfolding at breakneck speeds. What the world of Cyrillic Telegram channels and the Western media like Forbes, CNN, BBC offered were actually initially convergent, even as Russian military bloggers and analysts were quite […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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