An insurrection is not a tea party
16 January 2021
It’s messy, rowdy, bloody, irrational, and bewildering. Yet, it happens, and can happen anywhere when the ruler and the ruled start considering each other enemies. It happened a few days ago in the US.
16 January 2021
Understanding The Communal Divide
29 November 2020
Theories abound. Bizarre rumours run wild. Apart from extremists on both ends of the spectrum, all rational minds with a heart condemn the divide; yet, it refuses to go away. It’s complex -- at times it gets ugly but, most of the time, a simmering tension over numerous petty differences regarding faith, culture and inexplicable prejudices run deep.
29 November 2020
China-US War: A Frightening Possibility
15 October 2020
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaking at an Atlantic Council Front Page event on September 15, called for building an international coalition against China. Meanwhile, Michèle Flournoy, widely expected to be Pentagon chief in a Biden administration, said, “American military and its partners should consider developing capabilities to sink the entire Chinese Navy within 72 hours to deter Beijing.”
15 October 2020
Our quest for national identity
9 October 2020
Mid April, 1971. A lanky young boy sneaked out of his family home in old Dhaka into the hitherto unknown world of warfare.
9 October 2020
Is democracy possible?
13 September 2020
Discourse on democracy is so overwhelmingly taken for granted that even the blatant autocrat or invader claims to act in the name of saving or installing democracy.
13 September 2020
Did Hiroshima teach us any lesson?
5 August 2020
When the battlefield of Verdun was getting drenched in combatants’ blood from all contending sides, the political leadership, unable to define the stalemate, was trying to sell the war as the war “to end all wars”.
5 August 2020
China’s Self-Defeating Uyghur Policy
22 July 2020
In recent times, the entire western mainstream media and their affiliated outlets have regularly reported China’s alleged ill-treatment of the Muslim Uyghurs.
22 July 2020
High stakes in the Himalayas
6 July 2020
Border clashes reflect shared suspicion at best and animosity at worst between neighbouring states.
6 July 2020
From Bolshevik Revolution to Cold War: Partition in a different light
Just as the French Revolution had sent shivers across all the monarchies of Europe, a century and a quarter later the Bolshevik Revolution too rattled all the colonial powers to their core.
24 June 2020
US imperialism in the wake of Covid-19
Vladimir Lenin once said, “there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”. Can anything be more relevant to explain the present?
29 May 2020