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 […]
10 March 2021 I was not surprised to hear that Piers Morgan was getting the boot after his comments disparaging Meghan Markle on ITV’s morning show. I have often felt that if television and print media needed one boot right now, it is to boot out Mr Rupert Murdoch, to banish this evil person from […]
08 March 2021 Shailaja Teacher can take a bow even now. It is not possible to sustain a campaign over a year is what folks will have us believe in India. Of course, God’s own country first responded with the memory and the strength of having dealt with Nipah an experience the rest of India […]
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