13 July 2021 Prior to the Bismarck concept of nationhood, where culture and language populated ideally by a mono-ethnic people demarcated the nation state, it was rather common to see multi ethnic and multicultural in fact multi linguistic commons as a nationhood. Even if one takes the narrowest example of the British Isles as a […]
Category: Geopolitics
HEADLINES From The Hindu on 29 June and 3 July 2021 say it all! 03 July 2021 We have had much of back and forth on the Jammu Air Force Base as well as some Army border posts, claiming the passes made by drones allegedly tossing some explosives that would have damaged the sensitive security […]
26 June 2021 For three days, I have been trying to meditate on what are the take aways from the Delhi meeting of members of JK polity with the Union Governmental leadership. This is no ‘all party meet’ to kickstart political process after it has stayed halted in the aftermath of the announcements of August […]
10 June 2021 In what can be called great tidings, the major nations that make up G7 other than USA reported a much needed return of confidence in their polity toward the Biden Administration, upwards of 70% as per PEW which is dramatic considering the pitifully low confidence American allies had expressed under Trump Administration. […]
10 June 2021 Many military experts feel that the Nagorno Karabakh campaign was the first time a fully AI enabled weapon was used by the Azeris to gain tactical advantage over the Armenians, one from which the Armenians never quite recovered- Use of drones that were actually hovering/ loitering munitions, that were fire and forget […]
09 June 2021 I am no student of mandarin, yet, I am told that the sounds that are made by characters were once variant from region to region, much like how in Tamil country or in the Hindustani heartland, the lore says that the language transforms from every village precinct to the next. ( Scholars […]
06 June 2021 There cannot be a more significant day in the recent history of our world as the Normandy Landings, Operation Overlord as it was coded. If 1944 appears distant, popularly called D Day, few would have imagined how antisemitism that led to the horror of the Jewish Holocaust would now see the face […]
25 May 2021 We knew this Climate of Strategic Uncertainty had been called into operation when China discarded her decades old ‘peaceful rise’ policy and switched to what has been called ‘aggressive revisionism’ which manifested as Wolf Diplomacy and PLA Exercises. In 2013, Ladakh which is today a clear zone of intransigence, came to the […]
15 April 2021 We can see how actually President Biden operates, in a sense that in all probability he gave his Russian counterpart a heads up over the withdrawal from Afghanistan. A series of exposes from the Inspector General in the US DoD, had led to a better understanding of the futility of the efforts […]
11 April 2021This is obviously the more sense of deja vu that any observer of the IOR can lay claim to, a US Fleet vessel of the notorious 7th ( notorious from the subcontinental subconsciousness of 1971) when the flag bearer vessel is announcing https://www.c7f.navy.mil/Media/News/Display/Article/2563538/7th-fleet-conducts-freedom-of-navigation-operation/ its presence to India.Indian social media has responded to the […]
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