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 […]
27 July 2021 I use the term ‘Hot Turkey’ to refer to an abrupt switch from negative dependency to a positive force. If Cold Turkey is a phrase conventionally used to describe sudden stopping of smoking or spirits, by an addict, then Hot Turkey would be an abrupt taking up of a substance by a […]
27 July 2021 One never imagined that President Xi would prove to be what he has…like the proverbial chess board where the knights advanced with pawns only to retreat and make space for bishops and rooks, castling to create a fortress, rather than the initially ferocious advance across the white half, he has actually made […]
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A Break That India Needs
25 July 2021Not very much in terms of how the state of play is, yet, when you are hoping that flux will reveal a pathfinder, and you end up nearly a year later with more of the dreaded flux, your worst case scenarios fructifying in unedifying manner, it would seem that an ageless civilisational nation, […]
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