2 March 2019 We have witnessed a fresh round of strategic focus, when suddenly Indians vet their appetite for being relevant, by trying to become conscious of military aviation. Luckily we did not have any worthy out there trying to figure if the dog fight between the MiG21 Bison and F-16 was a Labrador or […]
Just because we have a World Cup winning captain as PM and he appeared more statesman like, India appears to have lost the diplomatic victory in this post Pulwama escalation. For Imran offered peace, not once but twice, offered to assist India in investigating Pulwama, and also has offered to return the downed IAF pilot, […]
No one can Predict the way events will unfurl. For fog of war is something known to all battle planners, that no plan survives contact! I said categorically that we have to be prepared for all contingencies because, after setting the ball rolling with a new paradigm shift in responses by striking deep in the […]
The Modi government always has been strident and muscular about its conduct of policy, or implementation of aim, and hence it was not surprising that we did not have to wait that long for a reaction to the blowing up of 44 policemen in a CRPF convoy. May be it is too early, but India’s […]
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To Play or Not to Play!
To play or not to play is not a question for a sportsperson, for no player worth his or her salt will venture to say we shall avoid a game. Rather sportspersons would love a game fair and square, so that they can savour the moments long after they have come and gone, especially those […]
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Alternatives & Narratives
It is fascinating to see how today we consume information, primarily to bolster our prejudices. We actually seem to count our blessings and our biases based on not the story around, but the one we find closest to our point of view. It is literally plethora of pious sentiments playing on the landscape of what […]
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Steel Framework
The options before the India of 21st century were clearly what tools it needed to convert itself from a colonial legacy state into a clear headed democratic nation in pursuit of progress and prosperity for its citizens. In that direction the last seven decades have seen progress in many spheres and near misses in some, […]
So technically these were volunteers who relinquished their citizenship and transferred their allegiance to ISIS. So now technically they are citizens of a state that has been dissolved by conquest, whose present leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi is on the run and rumours are rife that he faced a bloody coup last month. To say […]
President Trump declared on his Twitter handle that some 1000 ISIS fighters were held in temporary camps in Syria and if the EU do not soon take custody of these and process them under law, he would perforce have to leave loose. Then we were taken up with the case of one UK origin woman […]
The evil of statecraft is how by design it allocates to itself the supreme power of life and death over an idea. To shore up such an idea, the State can invest in networks, institutions and can be even at odds with its stated goals, making enemies of its own people. In that sense, the […]
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