7 September 2022 In this era of controlled narratives, one never thought that the West would be finding herself in such a corner. The much touted counter offensive of the AFU ( Armed Forces of Ukraine) was purportedly an armoured counter thrust, bringing to bear the might of American and NATO supplied Armour and Artillery […]
Category: Geopolitics
1 September 2022 31 August turned out this year to be a grim reaper reminder for the West. It was the first anniversary of the bloodiest retreat in Western history, discounting the Anglo Afghan wars, when the Americans pulled out from Kabul Airport extricating themselves after a horrendous bomb blast that killed dozens and maimed […]
16 August 2022 The Indian PM Mr Modi made a feisty speech full of slogans and narrative exhortation that would leave audiences spell bound. He had a clear image of India in the arc of his narration, one where the youth would dedicate themselves for the next quarter of a century to the cause that […]
28 July 2022 Few would have thought that a war in a corner of European fringe, the State of Ukraine borne after the dissolution USSR as a Post Cold War spoil, a bone of contention between the NATO and the Russian regime under President Putin for last two decades, would create a series of economic […]
20 July 2022 When it all began in February no one could quite foresee how this war would entangle and how its possible disentanglement could be arranged by stake holders. As of this day, the picture that emerges is that of a slow burn warfare of attrition where the Ukrainians are unable to hold contested […]
13 July 2022 It would be a travesty to view recent happenings globally as the best outcome of a form of government which dates to great antiquity. Both India and Greece can lay claim to origins of this form of ‘self rule’, which existed alongside the more prevalent form of accepting an ‘overlordship’. Suzerain versus […]
9 July 2022 A Japanese assassination of a national leader is virtually a ‘no-no’ in Japan’s post WWII history, after they were handed a pacifist constitution by the USA. The culture of violence is not alien to Japanese nationality, with their own version of triads, mobsters and special assassins woven both in to their chequered […]
6July2022 Wish Frederick Forsyth would pen another iteration of his classic which will remain a block buster- The Odessa File. Written about former SS members attempting to keep their brood safe post collapse of the Third Reich involving an investigative journalist, it remains a page turner to this day…What we are now witnessing in Ukraine […]
30 June 2022 If there is something which as a function of its Deep State America has shown to possess, it is this sense of justice, a sense of right and a sense of closure, enmeshed into its polity, forcing it to undertake upheavals of the present, however unsettling it may be, to secure an […]
27 May 2022 The rare human is one who is able to straddle effortlessly across civilisations, epochs and cultures the way Jawaharlal Nehru did once. As a formidable mass politician, historian and cultural Czar, Nehru remained deeply anchored in both the past and the future, unlike any who led movements or nations before or after […]
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