21 October 2020 In what was missed by most main stream watchers/media, a PLA soldier was returned to Chinese side at a border outpost along the Ladakh frontierhttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/chinese-soldier-who-strayed-into-lac-in-ladakh-handed-back-to-china/articleshow/78779879.cms. The details are not incidental, nor does one suppose this to be a one off. The PLA ploy could well be to muster Humint in Ladakh in […]
Trump Versus Biden
21 October 2020 We are 14 days away from 03 November 2020, a year when I thought, America would vote to get rid of the person who became its 45th President by what I can call as the biggest stroke of randomness. For four years, USA has been witnessing a steady stream of lies, confabulations, […]
The Thai Crises
So we are back to a series of demonstrations and protests. Readers would recall, how I have consistently taken the view that Thai State is acting in utter disregard to the simple nature of demand of the people, to be held accountable and answerable to them, and how even in the last decades of the […]
Slowly Surely Solidarity
17 October 2020 As expected the repurposed stuff did not work. after all Remdesivir was being used for Ebola (filo virus), there is no anti viral drug (Lipinavir/ritonavir too) yet which is successful against Corona Viruses in general out there. We already had major doubts about Hydroxychloroquine. We also knew that interferons like Tocilizumab and […]
15 October 2020 What scientists are wholehearted in agreement is that our planet Earth has seen an unprecedented period called Halocene, which has seen what we call the seasons of climate that is quite common to all cultures. Of course, Upanishads do mention how initially there was no sense of time, and Death the Progenitor […]
14 October 2020 One of the key elements that sort of put people off was all the models that initially estimated that our known world would get overwhelmed by the pandemic. What most people who now pooh poohed these models then and now, do not understand is that with whatever little understanding they had of […]
13 October 2020 One of the biggest drawbacks in the efforts of the global community to fight this pandemic is how to an extent tools for number crunching, modelling and assessments of predictive analytics actually threw off a straight forward narrative of science. A narrative that said that this novel corona virus, SARS CoV2 was […]
Fruits of Poisoned Trees
11 October 2020 It can be dismissed as the opinion of a matinee idol in an arena where he doesn’t have expertise. https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/telugu/2020/oct/10/vijay-deverakonda-picks-dictatorship-over-democracy-saysall-people-not-worthy-of-voting-right-2208438.html Yet the man who has a roll call of characters like Deverakonda does, with the kind of ability to emote raw emotions as he did, I am actually of the view that […]
9 October 2020 For all the geostrategic play many are actually going about discounting what I would call the domestic and the immediate for China. Just look at Taiwan, which appeared increasingly amenable at one point to sort of coexisting with China, even under the One China Policy, which America had under Nixon endorsed, which […]
Binary & Quad- The Sino Vortex
9 October 2020 The ratcheting of international opinion was bound to happen if you were a rising global power threatening the status quo, especially when a infectious disease that you could have been more alert to and more forthcoming, is the source for much of the world’s grief this year. I am not in that […]