25 June 2020 #IndoUSRelationship From the US standpoint, what ever is playing out in Asia is an opportunity. Clearly as a country that has made all the wrong civilisational moves, the USA is being afforded a rare second chance. 75 years ago, the Deep State in the US, then largely within the administration, rooted for […]
19 June 2020 I do not wish to be drawn into the narrative that is now being issued. A narrative of fancy imagination where Chinese are supposed to have dammed rivulets of the Galwan River and released waters as a flash flood over soldiers who were spotted by Chinese drones as advancing over the very […]
17 June 2020 In cinema, the scene could well be the commanding officer played by Jack Nicholson in ‘A Few Good Men’. Many commentators out there are trying to pry open and figure out what and why and how the incident snowballed into one where we sustained such a degree of cost. The sneering rattle […]
16 June 2020 We humans have theories for those that die young…’we say that those the Gods love they claim young!’ We look at this early thirties like some statistical certainty when we look at a series of people immortalised in our memory who have been claimed in that age…So now Sushant Singh Rajput a […]
15 June 2020 #BlackLivesMatter Right now across the world, we find that after the murder of Mr George Floyd at the hands of a policeman in Minneapolis, the seizing of a momentum to undertake a revision of the past. For all those protestors who are pulling down statues of Columbus or any of the Confederate […]
8 June 2020 Now that 150 days are well past us, we know what the pandemic is. We particularly know that as of now, either the strains or subtypes of this virus discovered so far are not clinically significant or right now, is not our priority in so far as the vaccination development programmes that […]
3 June 2020 Introduction: I cannot say when China officially switched her stance from peaceful rise to what her current posture has become, but clues for it can be found as early as 2003-4, after that brief probing in the 80s when India countered with Operation Checkerboard in the Arunachal. China has always respected those […]
2 June 2020 It is not in the hands of those who are unaffected by the circumstances, buffered by resources and information at their disposal to determine the responses of those who are disadvantaged. Any student of history will be clear headed if not clairvoyant that the reaction of a suppressed or oppressed segment of […]
26 May 2020 #LadakhFlashpoint China is again in the news, not just for trade sanctions against Australia, or the WHO resolution to probe the origin of the coronavirus, an increasing call for efforts to decouple from China has seemingly acquired a momentum of its own. In the midst of this, we have President for life […]
24 May 2020 Indians are slowly veering to the view that they have to live with this contagion. As a people who have sufficiently misinterpreted the founding Principle of Dharma, which the Karmic Theory, reducing it to a form of fatalism for some time now, they are ready to blame their fates rather than try […]
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