3 March 2022 For those who grew up reading ‘The Race to the Swift’ or Indian military strategists familiar with General Sundarji and Operation Brasstacks, there would be much to read into the current military strategy of Putin’s Generals. The West and its acolytes in media across countries and ‘democratic systems’ are talking up the […]
2 March 2022 There are many who were fairly surprised by the fact that we are now into a clear conventional military campaign against Ukraine waged by Russia, a war that perhaps only Biden Administration saw clearly as coming. We are now well into the second week of active hostilities. What ever one saw, depending […]
15 February 2022 The Quad which was rebooted with great fanfare during this pandemic by its first heads of government summit virtually now has fresh eyes to look at it after the AUKUS disruption of last year.Indeed, in the midst of the current heat over Ukraine and Eastern Europe, few indications have emerged that inform […]
14 February 2022 The West is showing signs of nerves. Clearly from where the Ukrainian President had declared that the situation in Donbas was no different than it was a year back and defusing the hysteria of a Russian invasion, to now the POTUS calling him directly and doctoring to him how the Russians were […]
8 February 2022 If one did not visit the Deccan Plateau one would not be able to immerse themselves in the beauty of bare rock. As if a mystical landscape artist was teasing the sun or moon or even the stars, these craggy outcrops dot the plateau far and wide and for most parts are […]
3 February 2022 In what can be called only as Deep Play, two well versed players of real politik have now lined up to play this game over Ukraine. One only hopes that it will end with what they both have in mind as common goals. It may sound preposterous to the world that Putin […]
31 January 2022 The much awaited first ever summit between the Central Asian Republics and India happened virtually on 27 January 2022. There are many key take aways, the first being, that this was the first time the present government has made a substantive engagement with this neighbourhood, with Mr Modi restricting himself earlier with […]
24 January 2022 What diplomacy does is to dilute the harshness of truth or reality with sophistry of word play, couched with jargon and ceremony that attempts to insulate it. The problem with diplomacy is not that it misunderstands it’s role, but that it takes its role too seriously. The problem currently besetting Western Diplomacy […]
20 January 2022 Manufactured outrage is now the new spin. If one can trace the underpinnings of fascism, the call would end with the inevitable conclusion that places ‘revisionism’ and rank ‘nationalism’ were actually pillions to a larger sense of ‘victimhood’. It would seem that Democracy as we now practise it, would need clear safeguards […]
When this is being written, the presence of Serbian Tennis icon and Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic would have been deported physically from Australia after losing a near fortnightly battle against the immigration authorities who locally found him run foul of their rules. If you hear sports coverage of the case, the hysterics are clear. […]
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