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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27 February 2021 From where India looks, she has lost her Tamil lever with Lankans long ago, when the IPKF became a souring point, and when late Rajiv Gandhi was killed along with score others in Sriperumbudur in 1991. It is actually a sign of immature leadership of our country that we allowed ourselves to […]
25 February 2021 In what can be characterised as Great Power ploy, President Biden has chosen to moot an alliance of Democracies, simply as an ideological counter to CCP China which is a regime that can be loosely characterised as Non Democratic. What observers are unable to see, Fareed Zakaria included, is that Biden strategy […]
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New Age Tech & Old Economy
20 February 2021 For a long time the new spin offs from world wide web became companies of such fascinating edge of our seat innovation that they were the darlings of the global economy. Virtual, in,fact signalled the birth of this seamless world that the new global economic system sought, one that is borderless, not […]
19 February 2021 Did any one thing that having a common border with Mexico or being the self styled ‘Lone Star’ state would leave Texas in a sense of splendid isolation, bring it grief on a ‘rainy’ day? Actually what should have been a normal winter of snows, a spell of white weather, has turned […]
17 February 2021 A scam of novelty appears to have burst in the RW firmament. First was a conventional expose of RW Troll army led by an aspiring star Mr Kapil Mishra, against whom a conscience keeper Mr Harsh Mander has gone to the Delhi HC to get the police to register an FIR for […]
15 February 2021 I will just stick my neck out to say that there is enough evidence in lore and historical plates, to prove that while British Isles offer glimpses of this in their history with wars between England, Scotland, Wales, Irish, before the United Kingdom came about, Tamil history never ended with such finality. […]
13 February 2021 It was surprising to see how many veterans as military experts took a view different from that of Lt Gen Panag who appeared to be along with Col Ajay Shukla one of the staunchest critics of the handling of Ladakh situation so far. Of course, it is said often, that the person […]
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