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. […]
There is only so much a polity can pursue at a given time, so currently from the issues of the status of Kashmir, the SC has decided to take up the issue of Prime Minister’s Security, while also accepting a plea regarding the ‘hate speech’ aspect of the Dharam Sansads that sprouted across Gangetic India, […]
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Turkey-Lira in a Spidery Lair
For some time now, we know that Erdogan as President sees himself as the all-knowing Caliphate Ottoman of the modern world. His successes include his wipeout of Turkey’s opposition both ethnic and non ethnic intelligentsia based, by his staged coup and other judicial make over moves, his use of Turkey’s nascent industrial capacity to create […]
However much folksy wisdom may weigh in, the events of last year, that culminated in the insurgency at the Capitol which was thwarted by loss of life, presence of mind and stroke of divine probability, is actually a serious fracture in the compact of democracy as is practised through universal suffrage across the global commons […]
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Imran: A Captain’s Knock?
Few will understand that what is happening in Pakistan is most unusual. From its early floundering foundational days, Pakistan as a ‘nationhood’ has been captive to a larger concept of persona unlike no other. In her initial days itself, the country became captive to vested interests, an elite that initially claimed her inevitability as a […]
27 December 2021 It appeared to be a world that had a fix for the Pandemic when this year began. The Vaccine roll out had begun the last few days of the previous year in most parts of the world and with President Biden moving in to the White House, it appeared that the mandates […]
24 December 2021 China has had a very exciting year. On the face of it, she finally managed all the markers for her ascendency to the Summit of Global Affairs, where she is now Equal with the reigning power, USA. Consider these events- 1 Anchorage Summit at Alaska 2. Exchange of ‘prisoners’ over the Huawei […]
22 December 2021 It is always that time of the year when you like to wrap things up, sort of Christmas gift wrap them, if you will, and hope that Santa will haul away to deliver…The biggest event of this year was supposedly the return of America from the wilderness President Trump had confined her […]
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