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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22 December 2023 The American Secretary of Defence General Lloyd Austin launched Operation Prosperity Guardian. It is most unusual for the Pentagon to create this kind of ‘special purpose’ in an already ongoing deployment in the Persian Gulf-Eastern Mediterranean region, one that straddles the present eye of the storm, engulfing the Middle East- Israel. The […]
How Nagorno Karabakh influences geopolitical fault lines in South Asia 4 October 2023 In what can only be described as a military manoeuvre war, the Republic of Azerbaijan has managed to obtain the cartographic relief it has sought for ages, that of the dissolution of autonomous status of Nagorno Karabakh and it’s absorption into its […]
12 July 2023 In what can be called a cross roads, NATO finds herself once more as an alliance seeking relevance in the modern post Cold War Epoch, when the global commons have just emerged from a debilitating pandemic and are seeking equity and economic cooperation to rebuild themselves and their populations. Global Poverty had […]
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 […]
23 January 2023 Any parable about brothers, about unity from Panchatantra to Jatakas to folk lore will always inform us about how an outside influence disturbs the equilibrium between siblings and promote rivalry. Yet, I am tempted to draw from ancient Tamil history where a poet, Perunchitiranar wrote about two brothers who ruled their kingdom, […]
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 […]
23 December 2022 The year of 2022 has been one which saw China emerge quietly, forsaking her previous stratagem of Wolf Diplomacy and overt trade heckling, moving softly as it were, to attain great advantages in the sphere of politico economic globalism. Compared to the fears of a Chinese melt down following the discovery of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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