14 January 2025 In more than two decades of following current affairs, one has never felt as despondent as towards the end of 2024. There were no signs of the genocide in Gaza letting up, no signs of Ukrainian jingoism tempering, no signs of Russians letting up their ‘meat grinding’ in Kursk and along an […]
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Trump Triumph
7 November 2024 If anybody was surprised that Kamala Harris was vanquished and the Dems lost the House and Senate along with the popular vote in what can be dubbed a Grand Slam for the Republicans, then they were victims of narrative mansplaining which the Western media houses have been masters at. As early as […]
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 […]
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Vinesh: Varnished?
8 August 2024 Truth be told, if the wrestler protests had not rocked over an administrator accused of serial and several instances of sexual abuse by lady wrestlers and wannabes, there was no way this episode of a wrestler from India challenging Olympics at a category well below her actual weight range would have had […]
7 August 2024 Most of India and the world was caught unawares by how quickly over the weekend a PM of long standing was coerced into a corner and had to flee her country. Sheikh Hasina was not a garden variety leader, her credentials as the sole survivor of Banga Bandhu’s immediate family following the […]
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 […]
-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 […]
17 April 2024 At the time of writing, IDF is yet to retaliate against Iran’s fireworks in the sky a few days back. Many observed that it was a night of great significance, almost Biblical when in Moses’ miracles, first born in every house were smitten by the Lord God. For one sitting far removed […]
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, […]
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