#ClimateOfStrategicUncertainty Tuesday, 14 July 2020 While the situation over the Sino Indian face off in Ladakh is still evolving with clear signs that the two Asian giants have cooled off by withdrawing forces and appear open for discussions about the alignment of the LAC, with a campaigning season that lasts till November, it would be […]
2 July 2020 Many of us are keenly following the events of the island territory of Hong Kong, which had a unique arrangement after its return by Britain in 1997, the anniversary of that event being yesterday! Officially China does not celebrate that day as Reintegration Day, officially the CCP continues to have a Hong […]
1 July 2020 India is uniquely placed at this juncture in her history, as for the first time, she faces a mix of cartographic and on ground alteration of her boundaries which had ‘settled’ over the last four decades almost in the High Himalayas. Those who came in late to see our Himalayan frontiers must […]
29 June 2020 The better part of the year is now on its end. Academic life runs the year astride the middle, some beginning after Summer, some in Spring, making for the annual upheavals of final examinations and next session anywhere between April and June. However 2020 is as I called it- Anno Corona. Every […]
28 June 2020 If only India had heeded the advise of sage experts and not allowed this conversion of a public health issue of pandemic containment into one of policing. Yes, public health is an aspect of public safety, however, by no yardstick can you allow the public health aspect to be subservient to administrative […]
27 June 2020 #IndiaAtWar Some disturbing news came from the Himalayan region, not from Ladakh which was and is widely now followed on all media platforms after the sacrifice of 20 Braves including Col Santhosh Babu. The news is coming from the centre and eastern portions, and it is actually a reaction to Indian actions. […]
25 June 2020 #IndoUSRelationship From the US standpoint, what ever is playing out in Asia is an opportunity. Clearly as a country that has made all the wrong civilisational moves, the USA is being afforded a rare second chance. 75 years ago, the Deep State in the US, then largely within the administration, rooted for […]
19 June 2020 I do not wish to be drawn into the narrative that is now being issued. A narrative of fancy imagination where Chinese are supposed to have dammed rivulets of the Galwan River and released waters as a flash flood over soldiers who were spotted by Chinese drones as advancing over the very […]
17 June 2020 In cinema, the scene could well be the commanding officer played by Jack Nicholson in ‘A Few Good Men’. Many commentators out there are trying to pry open and figure out what and why and how the incident snowballed into one where we sustained such a degree of cost. The sneering rattle […]
16 June 2020 We humans have theories for those that die young…’we say that those the Gods love they claim young!’ We look at this early thirties like some statistical certainty when we look at a series of people immortalised in our memory who have been claimed in that age…So now Sushant Singh Rajput a […]
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