16 July 2021 To paraphrase a popular quote on soldiering, for leadership, let us say, that Angela Merkel is one person about whom generations to come will write that ‘never has history owed so much to one person’! Like the Queen of England, yet not temporally a forever figure, as she remits office this year, […]
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Eastern Stirring: A Meiji redux?
15 July 2021 Japan as a country and polity is no stranger to self imposed isolation. The last pre industrial isolation was broken when the shogunate was replaced by what is popularly termed as the Meiji restoration. In the decades immediately after the 1868 restoration, Japan transformed herself, by placing telegraph lines, railways, forming a […]
13 July 2021 Prior to the Bismarck concept of nationhood, where culture and language populated ideally by a mono-ethnic people demarcated the nation state, it was rather common to see multi ethnic and multicultural in fact multi linguistic commons as a nationhood. Even if one takes the narrowest example of the British Isles as a […]
13 July 2021 The ancient concept of Chakravartikshetram uses a judicious mix of economic, social, cultural and military powers as attributes of one who desires to establish a chakravartam, which Sanskrit allows us to describe as sphere of influence. The concept of overlordship is actually more geopolitical in the Tamil concept of ‘mudi venthan’ with […]
12 July 2021 Right now the fancy variants of concern of the SARS CoV2 virus are getting labelled in Greek alphabet, only here too, there is extreme reluctance to label them that way, because I guess the scientists do not wish to run out of options. So we had a ‘Delta Plus’ before we have […]
8 July 2021 A dystopian world is not difficult to conjure for the future, this being imagination and inspiration in parts, one that is actually brought about by lack of both in the present. Yet, the past year has been a series of such missteps and calculative fuss, an obsession with numbers and headlines, with […]
7 July 2021 It would seem like a world gone awry and it has happened too frequently that now science appears sagacious, forewarning us homo sapiens of the coming apocalypse that is #ClimateChallenge. We had Canada a subArctic country reporting temperatures that would made ‘Madna’ of Mad Na fame from English, August, a scintillating novel […]
HEADLINES From The Hindu on 29 June and 3 July 2021 say it all! 03 July 2021 We have had much of back and forth on the Jammu Air Force Base as well as some Army border posts, claiming the passes made by drones allegedly tossing some explosives that would have damaged the sensitive security […]
02 July 2021 On a day when ideologues from a university started a party, 100 years ago, to today, when the party is a country with an army to boot, on an eternal Long March to People’s Liberation, the contrast in ideals and ideas could not but be helped notice. It was founded under the […]
29 June 2021 After what we can now see as an effort to demonstrate a clear uptick in administered vaccines per day, the renewed national roll out now fully subsidised by the Union Government is underway with the same underwhelming performance that has marked most endeavours since the beginning of 2020 when the PM promised […]
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