24 September 2024 We are witness to a decisive shift in how this WWIII is manifesting, from a smouldering SMO to a possible flare up across the Western Russian Borders to a second front in the Middle East that involves Lebanon and hopes to draw Iran in. If Kursk was a pure military manoeuvre warfare […]
Category: Geopolitics
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 […]
#Ukraine: Kursk Chimera
9 August 2024 Just when we were focussed on what Iran would do as retaliation for the Haniyeh assassination by elements claimed to be authorised by Tel Aviv, the past 48 hours has seen a small but stunning development that has been now reviewed from very many aspects of the ongoing Special Military Operations in […]
The Chinese Experiment 15 July 24 The Constitution There was a moment in history, when it appeared that two ancient cultures, which were syncretic and which fortuitously had historical linkages through trade and transmission of knowledge, were to chart a similar trajectory when China after being mauled by her ‘Cultural Revolution’ and India stymied by […]
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 […]
9 July 2024 What should we call a movement that is reclaiming the human narrative and perspective from what has been largely a racist, religious, revisionist project spurred by imperialism and industrialisation of Western origin? How should we toast an author like William Dalrymple who is writing and talking about the fiction our modern history […]
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 […]
-A review of flashpoints and geostrategic fault lines 24 June 2024 The Summer Solstice is over, the inclement weather systems that batter our planet with increased frequency have become highly local issues, each community eking out an existential deal for itself. There is no larger picture, one that was flagged by Green Peace or by […]
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 […]
15 May 2024 This is not about mothers, not about Mothers Day as it is celebrated which began in the US and which was protested as it got commercialised by its very progenitor…We know those bromides about motherhood, but I use Mothers Day as a kind of candle to hold up to the West, which […]