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 […]
23 January 2023 Any parable about brothers, about unity from Panchatantra to Jatakas to folk lore will always inform us about how an outside influence disturbs the equilibrium between siblings and promote rivalry. Yet, I am tempted to draw from ancient Tamil history where a poet, Perunchitiranar wrote about two brothers who ruled their kingdom, […]
18 January 2023 Wars have a way of upending what until then were dreary deliberations that meandered like a river into a desert…a nowhere point. Intellectual exercises at times, need this kind of an edge, a sheer drop from a precipice, where the option of further refining or digressing a point meets a fatalism, one […]
12 January 2023 Soledar has fallen, even though the West is officially yet to concede this. It is a huge victory for the Russian ground forces, and when this is widened to include Artemovsk and Bahmut main, the position of the Russians now in the centre of Ukraine appears very poised militarily. Coincidentally and may […]
5 January 2023 No one who is observing the Ukrainian situation ever envisaged that the New Year’s Eve or the Festive spirit of Christmas would bring a lull to the campaign or avoid bloodshed. A winter which is yet to freeze the slurry and loose earth that is now the steppe of Ukraine is one […]
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