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Thursday, 16 July 2020 Under the doughty Maggie Thatcher the Ultra Conservative who in tandem with Ronnie Reagan sized up the Soviets and brokered the deals with Gorbachev that saw the end of the Cold War and the fall of The Berlin Wall, the UK did two things. One was over Malvinas/Falklands ( which was […]

Thursday, 16 July 2020 So China was surprised when India undertook the exercise to cement her hold over the territorial claims she had in J&K by centrally dismantling the legal structure by which that territory was governed. So China was quick to protest, especially since the powerful MHA of India, in Parliament also declared that […]

Thursday, 16 July 2020 So far we have seen China do in the Year of Corona/Anno Corona what was largely anticipated.Make a push for its own international image and announce her arrival as a Global equal of USATo ensure that her Asian rivals were all in their placeTo contain the Pandemic domestically and revive production […]

#ClimateOfStrategicUncertainty Wednesday, 15 July 2020 It is actually stunning to win a bet over the numbers of cases America would have by July of this Pandemic called globally as Covid19 or CCP Virus, or Wuhan Virus, but ‘upwards of 2 million and around 200000 deaths’ was not a shot in the dark. It was based […]

#ClimateOfStrategicUncertainty Tuesday, 14 July 2020 While the situation over the Sino Indian face off in Ladakh is still evolving with clear signs that the two Asian giants have cooled off by withdrawing forces and appear open for discussions about the alignment of the LAC, with a campaigning season that lasts till November, it would be […]

2 July 2020 Many of us are keenly following the events of the island territory of Hong Kong, which had a unique arrangement after its return by Britain in 1997, the anniversary of that event being yesterday! Officially China does not celebrate that day as Reintegration Day, officially the CCP continues to have a Hong […]

1 July 2020 India is uniquely placed at this juncture in her history, as for the first time, she faces a mix of cartographic and on ground alteration of her boundaries which had ‘settled’ over the last four decades almost in the High Himalayas. Those who came in late to see our Himalayan frontiers must […]

29 June 2020 The better part of the year is now on its end. Academic life runs the year astride the middle, some beginning after Summer, some in Spring, making for the annual upheavals of final examinations and next session anywhere between April and June. However 2020 is as I called it- Anno Corona. Every […]

28 June 2020 If only India had heeded the advise of sage experts and not allowed this conversion of a public health issue of pandemic containment into one of policing. Yes, public health is an aspect of public safety, however, by no yardstick can you allow the public health aspect to be subservient to administrative […]

27 June 2020 #IndiaAtWar Some disturbing news came from the Himalayan region, not from Ladakh which was and is widely now followed on all media platforms after the sacrifice of 20 Braves including Col Santhosh Babu. The news is coming from the centre and eastern portions, and it is actually a reaction to Indian actions. […]