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#AbeAssasination: The Horrendous & The Hypotheses

9 July 2022 A Japanese assassination of a national leader is virtually a ‘no-no’ in Japan’s post WWII history, after they were handed a pacifist constitution by the USA. The culture of violence is not alien to Japanese nationality, with their own version of triads, mobsters and special assassins woven both in to their chequered […]

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#Quad:Biding The Chasm of Occident & Orient

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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ChakravartiKshetram-Indicus Throwback to the Future?

10 May 2022 We need to examine the fast changing global scenario in aftermath of what is the status in Europe. The ingredients from the current conflict in Ukraine all are pointers to what is probably a long drawn affair, one which probably will leave Europe as she was before the renaissance and industrial revolution […]

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The Mandarin Script: How China is getting served on Platter!

6 May 2022 Never before in history it would seem that greatness has been delivered to a nation, in such a perfunctory fashion. Greatness in terms of economic and technological prowess, on a platter by the extant order, out of sheer desire of maximising profit. China benefited by the World War II defeat of Japan, […]

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From The Bull-pit To Pulpit: India’s Reckoning In Aftermath Of Ukraine.

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 […]

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#Ukraine: From Cobwebs To Curtains

3 April 2022 https://t.me/vorposte/18109 A Russian armored train in the Zaporozhye region evacuates Ukrainian civilians and foreigners to the Russian Crimea. For Indians and for military historians everywhere, 3 April is a special day, as it the birth anniversary of India’s post Independence, finest military leader, FM Sam Manekshaw. Like how India created the plans […]

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#Ukraine: The Drift’s Disarray

9 March 2022 Never have I had to pause, because, my muse was driving me to morbid conclusions, those that I have only dread and regret for. When one analyses strategic sweepstakes, one must take the utmost cautions, even while painting a scenario of war, that the wishful thinking that this oeuvre begets is not […]

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Quad Squad- A quartet conceding no quarter?

15 February 2022 The Quad which was rebooted with great fanfare during this pandemic by its first heads of government summit virtually now has fresh eyes to look at it after the AUKUS disruption of last year.Indeed, in the midst of the current heat over Ukraine and Eastern Europe, few indications have emerged that inform […]

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Indian Options in Contested Charters- A Pacifist Pragmatism?

22 November 21 The world is unfortunately vastly more complex than when it was 70 years ago. The only evidence we have is the effort of some historians and analysts who have laid out how the West viewed South Asia, that was India before the colonials arrived, which they successfully dismembered into multiple countries instead […]

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Australia- The Slippery Slope of Strategic Identity!

10 November 2021 For a continent size island, located in Indo Pacific region, Australia has always played a second fiddle even after decades when Great Britain whose former colony she once was, proved to be a lesser power, after a brief skirmish over Falklands (1980s) with Argentina which the then British Government used to reclaim […]

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