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, […]
11 March 2024 In some darkest office spaces, deep within the deepest of Deep State panels light up working numbers, plotting against maps, playing an updated version of scenario. The outside world of metal and chemical explosives, the blood curling rage of battle cries, the lament of kith and kin, the acrid smell of fouling […]
23 February 2024 A moment comes, not rarely, but invariably, in the march of our times, when the dots connect, when a narrative weave is frayed by scrutiny, by the inherent fallacies it has threaded together, under the weight of contradictions of their individual threads. The story of Ukraine’s ‘War for Independence’ is a narrative […]
21 February 2024 War by any means is always a sordid affair, whether fought with roses or air flame hoses, whether bombed by incendiary munitions or by WMD, because the aim of any war is subjugation- moral and physical, forcing one side to surrender its valued corpus to the other that emerged victorious. Perhaps that […]
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Pakistan: A Turn Toward India?
12 February 2024 The decades after Independence, most Pakistanis would be polite and reticent with an attitude of quiet discomfiture that said- we are like that only, when they met their Indian counterparts. Especially for those who spoke Punjabi, the last few decades when Pakistan was involved with jehad and Afghanistan and spiralled downward economically, […]
11 February 2024 The Israeli bombing and sniping in Gaza Strip is unprecedented act of war against an entire population. Of course, before the current Post Cold War Epoch, the global experience has been the use of state violence against ‘non state actors’, which did involve bombing from the air too. In this list of […]
10 February 2024 War by other means, where the spoken word becomes mightier than the sword, is how decisions taken elsewhere in board rooms, in houses of representatives of the people, in warrens of bureaucratic maze, can upend or consolidate what is transpiring on the battlefields. The Tucker Carlson interview with President Putin being click […]
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Gaza Godzilla
29 January 2024 The events have a way of hurtling past our ability to appreciate their essence, their shape shifting nature and their transformation of the world in which we think we are in, is such that we appear caught in a warp of our own, unable to square up what events have served us […]
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