9 December 2023 Disclaimer: This is a fictionalised version of global affairs and real countries or persons mentioned here are for purposes of narrative understanding and not to be construed as factual portrayal. The Emperor sighed as the lights dimmed around him in Forbidden City, whose Denizens had worked toward quelling the unrest in his […]
Category: India
26 November 2023 The treatise of statecraft must have an essential element of power projection judged by the ability of the player to ‘keep the peace’. As much as militaries are instruments to wage war, a true military prowess would be the ability to ensure peace and war only at a time, place and for […]
16 November 2023 In the weeks following the 7 October 2023 raids by Hamas into Israel which included heavy rocketry and teams of Hamas converging on military units, installations and kibbutz of settlers along the Gaza, what has emerged clearly is how uniquely unsettling this war is. The only clarity so far is that Ukraine […]
2023 November 3rd Premise: The attendant avalanche of information that is coming from OSINT and official sources suggests the following:- Without going into who are the good guys and who the bad, we can just see how the period of consolidation of the Global South that has been midwifed by President Putin and to some […]
24 October 2023 (Concluding Part) The White Man has travelled a long way. From once holding the view that whatever he uttered was ‘justice’ and that he was offering civilisation to the uncivilised and dark peoples across the globe whom he considered at best an equal of human’s canine companion- dog ( Famous sign boards […]
19 October 2023 First on 7th October for six hours Hamas operatives surprised IDF across the Gaza in Southern Isreal. They committed wilful murder and destroyed a musical festival in the desert, they descended on Kibbutzs along the Gaza which were encroachments protested to Tel Aviv by Isreal’s closest friend and ally the United States. […]
How Nagorno Karabakh influences geopolitical fault lines in South Asia 4 October 2023 In what can only be described as a military manoeuvre war, the Republic of Azerbaijan has managed to obtain the cartographic relief it has sought for ages, that of the dissolution of autonomous status of Nagorno Karabakh and it’s absorption into its […]
Making sense of the Tamasha over cable news and reports of the Diplomatic row between New Delhi and Ottawa 26 September 2023 It is buried inside the paper, a comfortable Page 10 the coverage of the news in depth about the visa regulations ( which were subsequently withdrawn by New Delhi), about the death of […]
India Canada Spat over Khalistani terror 23 September 2023 This is being written with a clear idea that there will be more twists and turns before this bilateral spat between India and Canada gets ironed out into a definitive narrative with clear takeaways. However, at the outset, this much is clear that what Russian Guru […]
15 September 2023 If we were to coin a new term, let us call this the Ides of September…The air is adrift with overworked rumour mills. An American veteran Colonel McGregor claims on his YouTube and X handles that Ukrainian military minds are weighing the options of an overthrow of the Kyiv regime of President […]