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, […]
21 March 2021 While Greek sources offer no insight into any great high way cutting through the Magadha Empire midrib, they offer two clarifications. The first of these is that Indians were organised, martial and their emperor was holding his forces just ahead of the river Hyphasis, and while later day Roman commentators and compilers […]
20 March 2021 We must delineate clearly between the desire to update our understanding of history which is a genuine academic pursuit vis-à-vis revisionism, which is more like how emotions cloud human memory, where gaps of memory and actual events are distorted and filled by our imaginations. Currently I find globally two cultural stalwarts as […]
18 March 2021 Sometimes too much of a good thing can be good for nothing. What India has demonstrated is a certain set of situations where our responses were unfortunately viewed by people in India and abroad as either Western or Oriental, not characteristic Indian. Much of the efforts of scholars like Surendranath Dasgupta, the […]
13 March 2021 This is the Ides of March or is it something far more overwhelmingly compelling? President Biden had a full fledged Quad Bloc Anti China coalition meeting before his top diplomat went to Alaska to meet with his Chinese counterpart. Loaded dice? Or is this a tear that was darned double quick so […]
11 March 2021 In what can be called a flurry of long overdue diplomacy and policy intent, we can see India, China and USA talk as if by turn or tandem about the issues that engage them. It is really surprising that when the Chinese PLA presence in Ladakh still continues in sectors other than […]
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