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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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