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 […]
23 December 2022 The year of 2022 has been one which saw China emerge quietly, forsaking her previous stratagem of Wolf Diplomacy and overt trade heckling, moving softly as it were, to attain great advantages in the sphere of politico economic globalism. Compared to the fears of a Chinese melt down following the discovery of […]
22 December 2022 When this blogging site was started four years ago this day, the world appeared to be chugging along nicely. The concerns were of a Thucydides Trap that would see a joust inevitable between America and China no doubt, but an Indian and larger Asian promise seemed to be that glue that would […]
15 December 2022 The on going military conflict, dubbed SMO by Russians, called ‘war for freedom’ by the West, is a conflict that has rewritten every law of war hitherto fore. While much of the military sphere is predictable and precedent, there are clearly new trends in the basic element of military force- soldiering. We […]
9 December 2022 Those who read the fates of nations know this that more empires and nations have fallen to internal strife, to insurrection than to external predation in history. Famously the invincible Yadus of Dwarka of the Mahabharata could be epitomising metaphor for this, as a group of princelings consumed by spirits, drunk on […]
5 December 2022 Dr Manmohan Singh, India’s former PM wrote an OpEd in The Hindu in April this year, which spoke of the Global Order, of how it has benefited the Global South as much as it has the Global North, and how the barriers of global trade and tariff needed to stay put, if […]
28 November 2022 No power in the world has the kind of stomach that Russia has demonstrated over centuries, and more recently with the advent of modern warfare first with Napoleon’s Campaign and then with Operation Barbarossa that Hitler launched in WWII. In large measure, Russia was to lead the fight by herself, through a […]
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