5 October 2024 As a blog, a relatively prolonged absence could mean death of interest. For sometime now, a recalcitrance has gripped this space, since the ‘meat grinders’ and ‘meta’ narratives had become such a routine, that the very soul of the analyst was ensnared and benumbed, pausing as much for fresh air and hope […]
24 September 2024 We are witness to a decisive shift in how this WWIII is manifesting, from a smouldering SMO to a possible flare up across the Western Russian Borders to a second front in the Middle East that involves Lebanon and hopes to draw Iran in. If Kursk was a pure military manoeuvre warfare […]
22 September 2024 It is interesting to see how a controversy like this gets stirred in the first place with this level of alacrity in a country that is presently a cauldron of faith, at the very boil, tearing down many of the postulates that its modern founding fathers had built with much care and […]
18 August 2024 The details are slowly making a clear outline, as clear as they can be when so proximate to events unfolding at breakneck speeds. What the world of Cyrillic Telegram channels and the Western media like Forbes, CNN, BBC offered were actually initially convergent, even as Russian military bloggers and analysts were quite […]
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#Ukraine: Kursk Chimera
9 August 2024 Just when we were focussed on what Iran would do as retaliation for the Haniyeh assassination by elements claimed to be authorised by Tel Aviv, the past 48 hours has seen a small but stunning development that has been now reviewed from very many aspects of the ongoing Special Military Operations in […]
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Vinesh: Varnished?
8 August 2024 Truth be told, if the wrestler protests had not rocked over an administrator accused of serial and several instances of sexual abuse by lady wrestlers and wannabes, there was no way this episode of a wrestler from India challenging Olympics at a category well below her actual weight range would have had […]
7 August 2024 Most of India and the world was caught unawares by how quickly over the weekend a PM of long standing was coerced into a corner and had to flee her country. Sheikh Hasina was not a garden variety leader, her credentials as the sole survivor of Banga Bandhu’s immediate family following the […]
The Chinese Experiment 15 July 24 The Constitution There was a moment in history, when it appeared that two ancient cultures, which were syncretic and which fortuitously had historical linkages through trade and transmission of knowledge, were to chart a similar trajectory when China after being mauled by her ‘Cultural Revolution’ and India stymied by […]
10 July 2024 Preamble: For close to half a millennia what we have seen are the rise to power of a force that is Christian in its religious beliefs, that is fuelled by Capitalism, and that has established the concept of Market Economics and Free Trade. Fundamentally, it is founded on the notions of superiority […]
9 July 2024 What should we call a movement that is reclaiming the human narrative and perspective from what has been largely a racist, religious, revisionist project spurred by imperialism and industrialisation of Western origin? How should we toast an author like William Dalrymple who is writing and talking about the fiction our modern history […]
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