India-US- China: THREE IS Company or Crowd? Introduction 1. From patrol boats patrolling the Malacca straits(i), to building 5 million tonne 15 day oil demand as crude storage at Mangalore and Vizag, to acquisition of PHALCONs, gun locating radars , heavy artillery (Bofors), Hum-vees(ii), Hawk Jet trainer, Aircraft carrier Gorshkov, to rationalising the strategic command […]
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The Bregman Commandments
29 January 2021 The funniest thing is how the ideas that one author has offered are in many ways so self reaffirming for many who have been thinking all along on those very lines. I had a friend and mentor whose understanding of interpersonal relationships, I had even dubbed as ‘Pach Principles’ which was a […]
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The Human Soup
28 January 2021 Public memory is fickle say political commentators, however history is full of public memory being elephantine, quite willing to bide their time, as we saw during the French Revolution, in the Bolshevik overthrow of Tsar of Russia, and closer to home, in Chaurichura chowky in Gorakhpur UP when a procession chanting Non […]
24 January 2021 Finally we can begin to gaze away from the most important Western Democratic system and nation state, the USA and focus elsewhere. For actually on 20 January 2021, there were no surprises in the script. Of course we saw American raw power of her popular culture on display all day, starting with […]
16 January 2021 It was curious to read that President Xi was asking the boss of Starbucks to play good samaritan and renew high level contacts with incoming Biden administration to ‘ease the US China economic relations’! This tall request from Xi comes at a time when Biden may not exactly reset the button for […]
11 January 2021 It is just as well that Subramanian Swamy is amongst those writing a book https://www.jstor.org/stable/45242276?seq=1 in the context of Ladakh, https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/himalayan-challenge-india-china-and-the-quest-for-peace-review-the-search-for-a-new-modus-vivendi-with-china/article33528241.ece for if there is any one close to being claimed as a RW Intellectual, by simply the way of his persuasion currently, Mr Swamy would fit the bill. I have read […]
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Flashville @ Nashville
26 December 2020 I have waited for some time to see if any details will emerge that could be confirming my initial analysis of what went down in the main streets of Nashville, in front of its tallest building belonging to AT& T on Christmas morning in the State of Tennessee.My initial thoughts were simple […]
23 December 2020 If four years ago I had seen a US military member mention the word- ‘take over’ I would have simply baulked at it and dismissed it as nonsense. If any country was coup-proof after India, it was the USA! Yet watching General Michael Flynn actually mouth words to that effect https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/19/politics/trump-oval-office-meeting-special-counsel-martial-law/index.html, with […]
20 December 2020 Before we take things to mean more than what they are, Mr Rahul Gandhi’s walking out of a Parliamentary Committee hearing on Defence is being interpreted by too many people and with such bias that I cannot understand.Look at farmers being blamed as misled by Pakistan and China! It is as if […]
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Persia Engulfed
28 November 2020 There is the usual conversation going about how President Trump is not a regular president when it came to national security matters, how neither does he read the Daily Presidential Brief, nor does he hold sacred stuff that has been Presidential privilege to know. Yet what happened in an innocuous thoroughfare in […]
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