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 […]
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 […]