8 July 2024 The weeks that have followed the ‘peace conference’ in Switzerland have revealed that Europe is no better in a frame of mind than it was before. However, critically information has come that America has resumed trade with Russia in key mineral and fuel imports, Uranium leading the way with near 1 billion […]
-A review of flashpoints and geostrategic fault lines 24 June 2024 The Summer Solstice is over, the inclement weather systems that batter our planet with increased frequency have become highly local issues, each community eking out an existential deal for itself. There is no larger picture, one that was flagged by Green Peace or by […]
30 May 2024 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru whose anniversary just went past us, would never have glimpsed World History in the manner of how these past 200 odd days have gone by. The respect, the adoration in fact, that Nehru had for Western values and its modern scientific culture, its sense of liberalism, freedoms and humanism […]
15 May 2024 This is not about mothers, not about Mothers Day as it is celebrated which began in the US and which was protested as it got commercialised by its very progenitor…We know those bromides about motherhood, but I use Mothers Day as a kind of candle to hold up to the West, which […]
28 April 2024 When American Congress voted to allocate a further 61Billion $ US to Ukraine for this year, the aid came along with a 17 Billion $ US for Israel. Comparatively Ukraine received significantly reduced outlay for carrying out operations against the Russians who are now geographically redefining the SMO by regularly reducing Ukrainian […]
22 April 2024 Apparently the night of 13 April belonged to Iran, but the night of 19 April could be the night that belonged not to Israel but to the Coalition of Common Sense. In what can be termed as explosive, Mr Pepe Escobar on X revealed that according to his Asian sources, an Israeli. […]
17 April 2024 At the time of writing, IDF is yet to retaliate against Iran’s fireworks in the sky a few days back. Many observed that it was a night of great significance, almost Biblical when in Moses’ miracles, first born in every house were smitten by the Lord God. For one sitting far removed […]
5 April 2024 Very clearly the air strike targeting the Iranian Embassy in Damascus, Syria, was a desperate Israeli ploy to divert attention from international opprobrium, especially peaking after the deaths of World Central Kitchen charity aid workers in the Gaza. Loss of Western civilian lives in that strike brought home a relevance that perhaps […]
21 March 2024 Ides of March was made famous by Shakespeare as if Mars the God of War in Roman ( as well as Tamil classical antiquity as Sevvai) was at fault for offering a new momentum to a conflict that was perhaps beginning to offer an end game. President Macron has made a series […]
16 March 2024 Is morality the Ides of March for a military? The scope of this essay is not to examine the record of modern post world wars military conflicts for their record vis-à-vis the Geneva Conventions, but a simpler premise that do militaries need to have an ethical core around which they can rally, […]
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