5 October 2024 As a blog, a relatively prolonged absence could mean death of interest. For sometime now, a recalcitrance has gripped this space, since the ‘meat grinders’ and ‘meta’ narratives had become such a routine, that the very soul of the analyst was ensnared and benumbed, pausing as much for fresh air and hope […]
Tag: Iran
24 September 2024 We are witness to a decisive shift in how this WWIII is manifesting, from a smouldering SMO to a possible flare up across the Western Russian Borders to a second front in the Middle East that involves Lebanon and hopes to draw Iran in. If Kursk was a pure military manoeuvre warfare […]
30 May 2024 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru whose anniversary just went past us, would never have glimpsed World History in the manner of how these past 200 odd days have gone by. The respect, the adoration in fact, that Nehru had for Western values and its modern scientific culture, its sense of liberalism, freedoms and humanism […]
22 April 2024 Apparently the night of 13 April belonged to Iran, but the night of 19 April could be the night that belonged not to Israel but to the Coalition of Common Sense. In what can be termed as explosive, Mr Pepe Escobar on X revealed that according to his Asian sources, an Israeli. […]
18 January 2024 There is at play what we call the forces of unintended consequences, those small probables and pieces that when set upon, provoke a domino effect creating a series of ever rising ripples that finally create a tsunami. We don’t quite know when it all started, we can hazard a few educated guesses […]
2023 November 3rd Premise: The attendant avalanche of information that is coming from OSINT and official sources suggests the following:- Without going into who are the good guys and who the bad, we can just see how the period of consolidation of the Global South that has been midwifed by President Putin and to some […]
22 October 2023 The US Navy gathered a flotilla led by Air Craft Carrier USS Gerald R Ford tasking it with keeping in check Israeli aggression even as POTUS landed in Isreal and openly asked that her decision makers not repeat the mistakes made by the US after 9/11. However outwardly the reason for the […]
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 […]
6 October 2022 The death of Amini at the hands of the Iranian Moral Police set off a wave of protests in Iran. There have been waves of these protests even before Amini, when Iran was seemingly about to throw off the yoke of reductionist conservatism that passes off in the name of its Islamic […]