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 […]
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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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Pakistan: A Turn Toward India?
12 February 2024 The decades after Independence, most Pakistanis would be polite and reticent with an attitude of quiet discomfiture that said- we are like that only, when they met their Indian counterparts. Especially for those who spoke Punjabi, the last few decades when Pakistan was involved with jehad and Afghanistan and spiralled downward economically, […]
18 January 2024 There is at play what we call the forces of unintended consequences, those small probables and pieces that when set upon, provoke a domino effect creating a series of ever rising ripples that finally create a tsunami. We don’t quite know when it all started, we can hazard a few educated guesses […]
11 January 2024 The headlines are quite misleading, editorials are even more so. The narrative is now more clear on social media than in any other media, so much so that the virtual presence which is largely unverifiable has been weaponised by software giant India into what can be preliminarily dubbed as ‘troll diplomacy’. Indian […]
22 December 2023 The American Secretary of Defence General Lloyd Austin launched Operation Prosperity Guardian. It is most unusual for the Pentagon to create this kind of ‘special purpose’ in an already ongoing deployment in the Persian Gulf-Eastern Mediterranean region, one that straddles the present eye of the storm, engulfing the Middle East- Israel. The […]
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