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 […]
07 March 2021 If one did see way back at the beginning of this millennium a potential for the US to seek partnerships with India as a strategic necessity to counterbalance China, what the decades after that has shown is how an erstwhile ally at the time of World Wars, of the Western Compact, Russia, […]
India-US- China: THREE IS Company or Crowd? Introduction 1. From patrol boats patrolling the Malacca straits(i), to building 5 million tonne 15 day oil demand as crude storage at Mangalore and Vizag, to acquisition of PHALCONs, gun locating radars , heavy artillery (Bofors), Hum-vees(ii), Hawk Jet trainer, Aircraft carrier Gorshkov, to rationalising the strategic command […]
03 March 2021 What to make of the spectacle of 600000 doses by Sinovac arriving on a Chinese military aircraft to Philippines Vilamor air base, received by President Duterte. The Chinese ambassador made a triumphant statement on the occasion, one that echoes strangely with those made in colonial era by British Residents in Indian Principalities. […]
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