11 December 2025 One never knew that a quarter of a century could be this kind of topsy-turvy of what we assumed growing up as ‘normal’. At a geopolitical level, much will be made about this, as historians will review this as a part of a larger pattern of collapse of Empires. To think of […]
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23 February 2025 In modern era post the arrival of combustion, a navy has sailed close to the waters of a country which steadfastly identifies itself with its colonial anachronism- Australia. The Chinese PLAN send a triad of warships ( too small to be a flotilla even) that hooked around the Australian Eastern Coast and […]
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 […]
24 June 2023 “The hype will always be far beyond the happening, much like hubris tends to curtail human adaptation, hype tends to extend beyond the ground reality…” Think of a partnership of two of the largest democracies in the World today, both Constitutional Democracies, with their respective colonial backgrounds of the British Empire in […]
12 April 2023 The spectre of Ukraine and its shadow over the rest of the globe is now an absolutely undeniable reality. Even in the immediate vicinity of the Covid Pandemic that struck the commons in 2020, no analyst went so far as to venture on this present scenario where the G7 total economic clout […]
18 January 2023 Wars have a way of upending what until then were dreary deliberations that meandered like a river into a desert…a nowhere point. Intellectual exercises at times, need this kind of an edge, a sheer drop from a precipice, where the option of further refining or digressing a point meets a fatalism, one […]
22 December 2022 When this blogging site was started four years ago this day, the world appeared to be chugging along nicely. The concerns were of a Thucydides Trap that would see a joust inevitable between America and China no doubt, but an Indian and larger Asian promise seemed to be that glue that would […]
5 December 2022 Dr Manmohan Singh, India’s former PM wrote an OpEd in The Hindu in April this year, which spoke of the Global Order, of how it has benefited the Global South as much as it has the Global North, and how the barriers of global trade and tariff needed to stay put, if […]
18 August 2022 Aphorism of Premises: ” Past is not a necessary insight to the Future, However Precedence can be a platform for Predictive Performance as Preference.” There is much speculation about how a World War would be fought in the 21st Century, since the collapse of the Soviet Union triggered the end of the […]
27 May 2022 The rare human is one who is able to straddle effortlessly across civilisations, epochs and cultures the way Jawaharlal Nehru did once. As a formidable mass politician, historian and cultural Czar, Nehru remained deeply anchored in both the past and the future, unlike any who led movements or nations before or after […]
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