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 […]
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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the paper, a comfortable Page 10 the coverage of the news in depth about the visa regulations ( which were subsequently withdrawn by New Delhi), about the death of […]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 […]
India’s moment of reckoning in High Table Diplomacy 11 September 2023 The Indian stamp was evident in the adoption of the G20 resolution, which was a triumph brought about by the BRICS plus, led by predecessor president G20 Indonesia and successor president G20 Brazil, with South Africa as present BRICS host all aiding India sherpa […]
23 August 2023 It is a rare coincidence that when a major summit conference is on in South Africa as BRICS Summit the Vikram moon lander rover will attempt to touch the surface of the moon’s south polar region some time today. While Indian News Media is on overdrive in hyping it, with one major […]
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 […]
9 August 2023 Like how the American Establishment used the term ‘Star Wars’ to herald a competition of space based weaponry that escalated the Arms Race and triggered the Perestroika and Glasnost transformation of the Soviet Union and brought about the dissolution of the ‘Evil Empire’ shortly thereafter, decades later, it appears that the State […]
29 July 23 Warning: To treat this as fictional or factual, the risk is with the reader. Sometime this month, a centurion centenarian stepped into the arc lights, flanked by the most powerful men of the Middle Kingdom, marking perhaps a milestone once more, five decades later, after he was first conveyed as ‘baggage’ aboard […]
25 July 2023 While a existing dimension of Cold War that lasted between Moscow and Washington for close to five decades after the famous detente at Yalta during the WWII is being mapped as prismatic review of the conflict in Ukraine, unknown or even unwittingly, two Asiatic neighbours- India and China are being drawn into […]