2 February 2025 If planetary constellation of those visible and near to the unaided human eye in a straight arc upon the heavens was a portend then perhaps the oracle would have a cue. Else what just seemed to have been a done deal with a half a trillion $ US investment plan for StarGate […]
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 […]
12 November 2024 As the year draws to a close, it is time to take a look at systems of government, most importantly one particular form of it that can be called ‘Western Democracy’ which has been at the forefront of the West’s efforts to carve out the rest of the world in its image! […]
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 […]
22 September 2024 It is interesting to see how a controversy like this gets stirred in the first place with this level of alacrity in a country that is presently a cauldron of faith, at the very boil, tearing down many of the postulates that its modern founding fathers had built with much care and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
16 March 2024 Is morality the Ides of March for a military? The scope of this essay is not to examine the record of modern post world wars military conflicts for their record vis-à-vis the Geneva Conventions, but a simpler premise that do militaries need to have an ethical core around which they can rally, […]
31 December 2023 It is very easy to sign off with a note of optimism in usual times. However, the previous days that club to become this 2023 have been any thing but usual. In 2022, no one thought that Ukraine would continue to be on the boiler, but now we face the opening up […]
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