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 […]
15 August 2021 In the 75 years of her existence as a modern Western Democracy, India has done creditably for herself, as a force for stability not just within, but without. One cannot imagine the outcome in East Pakistan, in Sri Lanka, Nepal or Maldives in any manner different than how it panned out after […]
13 August 2021 There was a time, when apparently, the first instance of outsourcing was when the White Man came to tame the wilderness and the wild, cultivate culture amongst those who remained till then beyond the pale of culture, in lands that were peopled by what now modern correctness terms as ‘First Nations’. When […]
11 August 2021 When President Trump’s account was suspended by Twitter, many lustily cheered, for the excesses of a false narrative that had such follower-ship needed taking down was the logic. Many argued, however that Twitter had no ombudsman, there was no natural justice in how the measure was undertaken, including a clearly one sided […]
10 August 2021 Who would have thought before it happened, that a leading news from China would actually be of a wandering herd of elephants? That China would use every modern means including drones and supply trucks, fork lifts and earth movers, to keep a group of 15 elephants away from urban centres, removing walls […]
4 August 2021 Continuing with this vein of strategic rigidity, from Afghanistan’s Taliban woes, we can shift toward how the last seven years has been a series of mixed events, opportunities that were offered by the arrival on the national stage by Mr Modi as a person with no baggage, and his audacious attempt to […]
2 August 2021 The entire saga seems rather scripted, isn’t it? That if we read this modern piece of history in the making, it would appear as if this was a kind of ‘deja vu’, a redux of the charade, where one superpower first enters the scene and then is forced to exit by a rag […]
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