22 April 2021 The Chinese are not just harassing the Taiwanese, they are actually testing concepts they have hitherto simply studied in paper or observed the other Carrier operators conduct, including that of her western neighbour India, because China despite her tall claims of historical naval prowess and other revisionisms, knows the truth more than […]
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India’s Covid Strategy
20 April 2021 We need not look for scape goats this time around. It is more like a sense of collective guilt that surfaces when we see and hear those heart rending hunts for oxygen and ventilator beds, those awaiting their turn to perform the last rites of their kin who have died. There are […]
15 April 2021 We can see how actually President Biden operates, in a sense that in all probability he gave his Russian counterpart a heads up over the withdrawal from Afghanistan. A series of exposes from the Inspector General in the US DoD, had led to a better understanding of the futility of the efforts […]
13 April 2021 Two cases were widely discussed in social media and news media- one of a verbal assault on a Covid Administrator in a Government Hospital in MP and another of a youth dying in Bengaluru without gaining access to a ICU bed with ventilator. Both were actually related, as is the more recent […]
11 April 2021This is obviously the more sense of deja vu that any observer of the IOR can lay claim to, a US Fleet vessel of the notorious 7th ( notorious from the subcontinental subconsciousness of 1971) when the flag bearer vessel is announcing https://www.c7f.navy.mil/Media/News/Display/Article/2563538/7th-fleet-conducts-freedom-of-navigation-operation/ its presence to India.Indian social media has responded to the […]
08 April 2021 If there is one major defining moment for this Pandemic it is actually the role of populism and by extension prejudices in the management of the Pandemic so far. More than a year later, one cannot do much on Twitter other than report a handle in categories other than what it should […]
07 April 2021 We can even call this a moment as one ‘when a veteran outflanked a neophyte’. When you have decades at the high table nurturing foreign policy, diplomatic stratagems and strategic calculus, as Mr Lavrov does, you can make the meeting https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/any-solution-in-afghanistan-without-taliban-runs-risk-of-failure-russian-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov-101617719480122.html between even two equals become a meeting of a ‘sounding board’. […]
06 April 2021The Indian Scholastic system underwent a major change from whatever indigenous systems operated to the British system, which for context can be called Macaulay system. It was an effort to churn out Indians who were English in Heart and Mind, given to British Sensibilities and who would depict themselves in public life in […]
05 April 2021 For those who do not know, if there is a grass roots ‘son/daughter of soil’ armed struggle in India that has no ethnic or religious affiliation it is this of Communist orientation, labelled after China’s first CCP Chairman Mao and known in security and socioeconomic discussions as Maoists/Naxals. ( The Naxal is […]
03 April 2021 If you can put partisan politics aside for a moment, then you can actually look at the Burns-Rahul virtual tête-à-tête as perhaps the biggest conversation India and the US had in recent times, which was done in the public domain.It was a very adult conversation, one where the seasoned diplomat was engaging […]
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