20 December 2021 If there was a lesson in how the West lost the war of keeping the peace after winning the battle defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War, it has been on relentless play for close to three decades now. If the Cold War denouement was a rare opportunity for America to […]
15 December 2021 There is always so much to deliberate about the vivisection of India as a composite commons into a partition of Islamic and ‘secular’ Hindu majority state by the British when they offered her Independence. There are volumes written about the aftermath of Partition, the deadly dance of death that visited the subcontinent […]
13 December 2021 If any thing, this much is clear that the new multiple variant corona that is carrying nearly 50 variations in the Spike Protein region of the virus, variations that were initially suspected to impart extreme virulence to the germ, but which now appears to impart the virus with the potential to become […]
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Accidental Departure- CDS Reforms?
10 December2021 While it is always too early to write about the legacy of a person who donned the mantle of India’s first CDS, General Rawat, was as much a person of his circumstances as he was an artful survivor of the system that produces India’s military bureaucracy and what we call as ‘leadership’. That […]
6 December 21 It is not something that one could expect from many leaders, but Putin as President has always been exceptional. This is what he does and where he makes his daring do such a normal feat of his presidency so far. Akin to riding bare horse, bare chested, or what have you, Putin’s […]
3 December 2021 Taiwan is in the news for some time now, yet, for stranger tides that we are in, it is actually the beneficiary of much happening, which is not of its making. If there is something called ‘Universal Conspiracy’ which Paulo Coelho wrote about in his ‘Alchemist’, then it is working now to […]
1 December 2021 For those who read this, the familiarity with 9 dash lines, the ruling by Permanent Court of Arbitration in 2016 against the 9 dash line claims of PRC /CPC China, and the background of Chinese attempts to build islands out of shallow shoals and reefs to boost her territorial claims in these […]
28 November 21 It is very easy to say that women have been empowered. Many of so called civilisational barriers have no doubt been broken, the so called ‘glass ceiling’ including most recently when VP Harris was officiating as POTUS briefly when President Biden was under anaesthesia for a colonoscopy. We know that women have […]
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The Case for Necrobiomes…
25 November 21 If one thought that vultures were integral to only Parsi Fire Temples, there is one documented secretive legend that comes from Tamil country, from a place called Thirukazhukundram. Folks of my grand parents generation used to regale us with stories about the temple, a bizarre and yet believable tale of a pair […]
22 November 21 The world is unfortunately vastly more complex than when it was 70 years ago. The only evidence we have is the effort of some historians and analysts who have laid out how the West viewed South Asia, that was India before the colonials arrived, which they successfully dismembered into multiple countries instead […]
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