13 September 2021 One can never tell when the Martin Luther King Jr moment will come by, when a speech as soulful or as rousing could be mouthed, and while these are first impressions of a speech from a source that could be never guessed first hand, it has the potential of rhetoric and pitch […]
09 September 2021 Today is two days shy of two decades after 9/11, when the USA’s judicial system has revealed that it is as good as a third world tin pot dictatorship in so far as trying those under law who have been captured in the aftermath of what is arguably the worst terror attack […]
07 September 2021 Yes, the attack in Auckland was unexpected as all observers of matters of this nature would concede, be they criminologists, social scientists, psychologists and political analysts. Of course, the actual events as they unfolded, revealed that the authorities in New Zealand were not caught unawares, rather, they were in anticipation, perhaps, in […]
03 September 2021 We have grown up hearing all work and no play makes Jack & Jill dull. ( The old phrase has been reworked to accommodate modern gender sensibilities, mind you!) So when you find that your country’s leading Tech export is from a company called Tencent and a game called PUBG, one famously […]
02 September 2021 The Taliban have not been the greatest turncoats, in fact, there is sufficient evidence that the Haqqani faction and the Taliban are actually siamese twins, if not one and the same person. However, the way Western players from US to UK are now trying to create a margin for error, moving out […]
31 August 2021 There has been a need to examine India, as a #NewIndia project, with the subject of symbolism, only because, the partisan nature of polity there, appears to have reached unscaled peaks hitherto fore. Whether it was the Statue of Unity Project, or the Central Vista project, or even earlier in less divisive […]
25 August 2021 What the entire spectrum of Western media is agog with is what they ride high on- humanitarian crises, that has been set upon by the current situation in Afghanistan. The early reports of executions, arrests, public defacing using ink, flogging etc that are now coming to the fore are one part of […]
Afghan Plot: The spots and warts
24 August 2021 The largest gain of the American occupation in Afghanistan was actually the opening two subcontinental political entities were offered after the momentous events of 9/11. One obviously was Afghanistan civil society as such, the other was India. However, as we have seen from the current situation where the ‘status quo ante’ has […]
18 August 2021 The way many American veterans are arguing about the Biden Administration, it would seem that they were arguing for continued presence in perpetuity of the US mission to keep Afghanistan from the Taliban. What few strategic analysts can now grasp in clarity, amidst the chaotic scenes from Kabul is how orderly the […]
(India must follow his lead…) 16 August 2021 It was with a lot of eeriness that Indians and viewers every where watched the fall of Kabul on the very day India commemorated her 75th Anniversary of Independence, with Mr Modi delivering another speech high on octane and optics, as he promised to his countrymen and […]