Contrasting Aspects of SMO and IDF Operations offer insight into the mind of the Higher Military Organisation of Kremlin and Kirya. 28 October 2023 Disclaimer: This writing is apologetic in so far as the collateral losses of civilian life and property that go either unnoticed or ignored by military and political leadership. The larger loss […]
Category: Human Interest
Indian quest for global presence and relevance… 15 August 2023 India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. Hu Shih As India marks her Independence Day, there is much to be satisfied about as a country that emerged from the ashes of rabid […]
Selective espousal of universal concerns mars liberal champions and delegitimises their cause! 19 July 2023 In a fortnight from now, #Ukraine will enter a new phase of this hybrid campaign, not just with the advent of cluster munitions into the battle zone supplied by Americans, but beyond the turf of Ukrainian ‘meat grinder’ fields, and […]
4 July 2023 Who would have predicted that France would be engulfed in violence, with protests rocking major centres and regions, besides besieging the capital Paris. The situation has led to French President Macron postponing his state visit to his key and closest European ally- Germany. And it has reopened France’s colonial and post colonial […]
3 May 2023 When Labour Day passed off rather peacefully, one would have thought that the last idea that we must entertain is the role of Government in matters economic, which is what socialism is about, where sovereign guarantees create the base for distribution of wealth amongst the commons. Increasingly Free Market Capitalism seems to […]
22 April 2023 This is probably more a theme of blockbuster scripts, a rarified atmosphere beyond the pale of concerns of the commons. Here the big and the bigger are by themselves, where the leverage and manipulation can hold a candle to even the best twists and turns of a potboiler…Art imitates life, life imitates […]
16 February 2023 In recent memory, no one quite anticipated this present state that the Anglican led Western World has reduced itself to. It took a set of plain speaking efforts from venerable investigative journalist Hersh Seymour, from rebel asylum seeker and whistleblower Edward Snowden, and from Swedish expert Lars Bern, to paint a picture […]
6 October 2022 The death of Amini at the hands of the Iranian Moral Police set off a wave of protests in Iran. There have been waves of these protests even before Amini, when Iran was seemingly about to throw off the yoke of reductionist conservatism that passes off in the name of its Islamic […]
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 […]
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 […]
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