29 March 2023 The biggest earthquake of our present times geopolitically just happened and most of the world appears to have given it a wide miss. No, it is not India where apparently democratic mores are becoming the bone of contention and where the bureaucracy has used the rule to evict an MP, nor is […]
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#Ukraine: A Reaper drowned!
18 March 2023 We are witness to a new phase of escalation in the aftermath of the Russian decision to drown a MQ9 Reaper drone of the USAF. This signals a return to the heightened phase of the Cold War, only that this is happening in the backdrop of an already full fledged ‘proxy on […]
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India’s Choice: Managing The Mirage
Hindu – 11:3:2315 March 2023 ‘Tis the Ides of March…famously recalled as a Shakespearean play, Caesar of Rome was done to his death, stabbed multiple times within the Senate. This is the time of the annual calendar of suspicion, betrayal, testimony of loyalty and allegiance, cloaked in blood and soaked in ambition. So from the […]
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#Ukraine:The Global Tilt
5 March 2023 Few expected that the world would change, even though we end up remember the day after of how a week itself is considered too long, that politics oft is a play of strange bedfellows. So we look at how Ukraine is retreating blasting railway bridges across Bahmutha river as they surrender the […]
24 February 2023 The saying about the FOG OF WAR is that ‘No Plan Survives Contact’. So we must understand that two distinct military cultures who are at war in Ukraine are still ‘planning’ and this after one whole year of combat operations which have stood up as a testimony to that adage that ‘more […]
16 February 2023 In recent memory, no one quite anticipated this present state that the Anglican led Western World has reduced itself to. It took a set of plain speaking efforts from venerable investigative journalist Hersh Seymour, from rebel asylum seeker and whistleblower Edward Snowden, and from Swedish expert Lars Bern, to paint a picture […]
10 February 2023 When the Global Commons marched post Cold War, it was the breeze of liberal free market economics that carried the comity of nations through GATT and WTO, by establishment of common markets and free trade zones across regions. While the global economy had been pegged to the US Greenback for more than […]
7 February 2023 One can actually admire how a few balloons of hot air can disrupt the way of meticulously orchestrated state craft that was to have led to the first ever Chinese Presidential meet up with the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. Diplomatic watchers will aver how remarkable such a face-off would have been, […]
3 February 2023 When the war started in Ukraine, nearly a year ago, no one could have predicted that this would be a long drawn campaign as it turned out to be. Now guess estimates of Ukrainian conflict would stretch to 2024 winter, as we can see that the Russian strategy of militarily forcing Ukraine […]
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The Indian Republic @74
26 January 2023 Few Indians of yester generation would have accepted the end of veneration of the clique that brought Indian transition from colonial dominion into what is today India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Even fewer would have guessed that India would undergo a transformation the way it has done, and the path it […]
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