24 January 2021 Finally we can begin to gaze away from the most important Western Democratic system and nation state, the USA and focus elsewhere. For actually on 20 January 2021, there were no surprises in the script. Of course we saw American raw power of her popular culture on display all day, starting with […]
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The Ageing Mess of Media
19 January 2021 Oh some things have really aged well. We could have taken this in terms of unraveling or in terms of implosion, but the disclosures about the true or presumably inner thoughts that did not quite get blared in as many words of Mr Arnab Goswami in his WhatsApp conversations with the boss […]
16 January 2021 It was curious to read that President Xi was asking the boss of Starbucks to play good samaritan and renew high level contacts with incoming Biden administration to ‘ease the US China economic relations’! This tall request from Xi comes at a time when Biden may not exactly reset the button for […]
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Unraveling the Right
16 January 2021 The fruits of FOE or FOS as people call these expressions of falsehood and prejudice using the liberal environment to chalk up alternate ‘factuals’ which like scientism are not the real thing, have come to bear on America. You can imagine the Lady of Liberty who was upholding the torch of freedoms […]
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Dragon Without Fire?
14 January 2021 I want to ask this question about why the Chinese PLAN and PLAAF and PLA suddenly turned quiescent on the SCS seas, including Taiwan Strait, when the USA was so distracted that we would term this as a ‘nation at war with itself’? I was of the view that Chinese moves since […]
11 January 2021 It is just as well that Subramanian Swamy is amongst those writing a book https://www.jstor.org/stable/45242276?seq=1 in the context of Ladakh, https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/himalayan-challenge-india-china-and-the-quest-for-peace-review-the-search-for-a-new-modus-vivendi-with-china/article33528241.ece for if there is any one close to being claimed as a RW Intellectual, by simply the way of his persuasion currently, Mr Swamy would fit the bill. I have read […]
9 January 2021 Many readers felt that the previous blog had an unjustified heading, that America far from being destroyed was actually to rediscover her founding spirits and would spring board from the insurrection at The Capitol and renew her leadership of the Free World. As if the opprobrium of the ‘Free World’ was not […]
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The Drama That Destroyed America
8 January 2021 I wanted to see signs of positivity in the swirling cesspool that engulfed America finally before Trump quit office. It was something I had stuck my neck out and predicted, I had even hoped America would avoid this situation by a Democratic landslide, which didn’t. It is not that Republicans have a […]
7 January 2021 We are watching what is called in plain terms- anarchy! We had an invasion of what is arguably the oldest building other than Westminster which has witnessed continuously a tradition that we call Constitutional Democracy- The US Capitol. We are clear where we stand now, because a fancy mob of motivated miscreants […]
6 January 2021 The idiom ‘ brazen it out’ acquired a whole new meaning since 2016 with the advent of Trumpism, which has had its epoch from the Inauguration Day 2017 when the famous ‘crowds for the swearing in’ came into fray, signalling a beginning of a Presidential term that was going to be based […]
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