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 […]
02 April 2021 This one has a lot of what analysts call ‘wheels within wheels’! The Russian presence in the Eurasian Continental is one which we cannot ignore, no matter how much Chinese lay claim to the honours of being the titans, for reasons of history, reasons of character of the people and most importantly […]
31 March 2021 No analyst could have predicted the pace at which America has returned to the global arena under President Biden. It was as if, Trump WH had just switched off and to get America back in all that Biden had to do was to switch it back on, I can imagine even that […]
28 March 2021 We just passed the anniversary of the lockdown announced momentously one year back, thinking India as a nation suffered from the virus in ways different from that of Brazil or USA or Europe, though not as successful as our immediate neighbours. While many still held a grudge about the manner of the […]
26 March 2021 I have to say that I never imagined how Russia could be considered European power when she lay stretched across Asia right upto the Bering Straights! It is one geopolitical map that always piqued me, especially when the Russo Japanese War was described as frankly one between European established power vis-à-vis a […]
21 March 2021 Probably Western Civilisation has at the moment the best set of institutions, which is why it has managed to keep ahead of the Game through two world wars and the world’s first ever multidecadal strategic game of stare, where two sets of military systems stared down at each other with ballistic missiles, […]
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