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 […]
Tag: 1971 Surrender At Dacca
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, […]
24 October 2023 (Concluding Part) The White Man has travelled a long way. From once holding the view that whatever he uttered was ‘justice’ and that he was offering civilisation to the uncivilised and dark peoples across the globe whom he considered at best an equal of human’s canine companion- dog ( Famous sign boards […]
15 December 2021 There is always so much to deliberate about the vivisection of India as a composite commons into a partition of Islamic and ‘secular’ Hindu majority state by the British when they offered her Independence. There are volumes written about the aftermath of Partition, the deadly dance of death that visited the subcontinent […]
Indian Liberation!
16 December 2020 For simply the significance of this day, the acclaim of which is simply unfair to reduce to polemics or strategic concerns, 16 December as Vijay Diwas or Victory Day was the greatest day when India’s military accomplished for her, the victory of a national idea that was notionally and rationally superior to […]