13 December 2025 Much has been made about China’s ‘not so’ peaceful rise, however, if one goes by the manner in which UK and USA became the powers they were, China’s rise is in utter contrast a testimony to pacifism. China’s military actions were not adventurism in the period of its new birth, circa AD1949 […]
Tag: India's Credibility Crises
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, […]
Indian quest for global presence and relevance… 15 August 2023 India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. Hu Shih As India marks her Independence Day, there is much to be satisfied about as a country that emerged from the ashes of rabid […]
22 April 2022 It was very rare for a reticent and former Prime Minister to write about India as being at the cross roads of global opportunities that arose from the flux that this global commons experiences in the face of Ukraine. Dr Manmohan Singh writes about the prospects of India as a peaceful democracy […]
29 March 2022 The larger contours of this current conflict lie in what is simply an ‘understanding of history’. If the Russians view Ukraine as their ‘motherlode’ of culture, as once an integral part of Russia with Odessa rivalling St Petersburg, and the Russian Naval Fleet itself headquartered for centuries at Sevestapol and calling itself […]
There is only so much a polity can pursue at a given time, so currently from the issues of the status of Kashmir, the SC has decided to take up the issue of Prime Minister’s Security, while also accepting a plea regarding the ‘hate speech’ aspect of the Dharam Sansads that sprouted across Gangetic India, […]
India in Dilemma or Deliberation? 08 October 2021 No country has invested more in identifying China as a Global Power as India has. Not just because of her civilisational linkages with China, or cultural ties that are perhaps the most ancient and most celebrated, one that invested in every corner of each other’s lands and […]
Pole Position China? 05 October 2021 There are a spate of articles across western media that have focussed largely on China and her rise for close to a decade now. While largely these were written admiring the rapid and unprecedented growth of CCP China, most well researched pieces never lost sight of how the CCP […]
02 September 2021 The Taliban have not been the greatest turncoats, in fact, there is sufficient evidence that the Haqqani faction and the Taliban are actually siamese twins, if not one and the same person. However, the way Western players from US to UK are now trying to create a margin for error, moving out […]
31 August 2021 There has been a need to examine India, as a #NewIndia project, with the subject of symbolism, only because, the partisan nature of polity there, appears to have reached unscaled peaks hitherto fore. Whether it was the Statue of Unity Project, or the Central Vista project, or even earlier in less divisive […]
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