What set me thinking hard after reading the news-report reproduced below is why such a big furore or political storm gets created in India by the media, civil society, hordes of “green” and/or Human-rights NGOs and the Lutyens media mafia as well whenever the Govt of India or some other state government comes forward toContinue reading “STATE CAPITALISM: “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”?”
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In the fruit-grove of Asia, has India turned out to be low-hanging fruit for America?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-23/cold-war-2-with-china-and-russia-is-becoming-ww3-niall-ferguson Bloomberg Excellent Op-Ed in the Bloomberg magazine indeed that gives deep insights into what’s going on today in the global theatre of superpower conflicts. Having read the essay carefully I asked myself: Okay, but what does it all mean for India ? And here’s what I think : India is being wooed and suckeredContinue reading “In the fruit-grove of Asia, has India turned out to be low-hanging fruit for America?”
Let me give it a shot at imitating CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and his “Here’s my Take”!
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-russia-cooperation-is-resilient-says-senior-chinese-diplomat-2022-04-19/ Some expert analysts of international and geopolitical/Geo-strategic affairs have been waxing eloquent in journals like The Foreign Affairs, the Economist, WSJ, The Atlantic etc. about how the Ukraine war has serendipitously succeeded in uniting the NATO alliance which was until recently beginning to fray and dissipate in Europe . No Western expert however caredContinue reading “Let me give it a shot at imitating CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and his “Here’s my Take”!”
Liz Truss’s Freudian Slip: Pax Brittanica through Pax Americana
After India’s Foreign Minister’s ferocious “in your face” comments to UK Foreign Secretary, Ms Liz Truss backed off a bit from starting to lecturing India on how it ought to to conduct its foreign policy towards the Ukraine crisis https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/uk-foreign-secy-meet-jaishankar-says-natural-to-look-for-deals-when-oil-prices-rise-101648753314794-amp.html But then Liz Truss through a revealing Freudian Slip spilt her guts. She couldn’t hideContinue reading “Liz Truss’s Freudian Slip: Pax Brittanica through Pax Americana”
Rational thinking is the first casualty in any war …. This chart proves that !
It also proves how tragically perverse is human nature that it lets History go on repeating itself through the ages on the fundamental Thucydidean principle of War that “the strong will do what they can and the weak will suffer what they must”. Sudarshan Madabushi
TWO FRIENDS TALK ABOUT THE “HIJAB CONTROVERSY” and the STATE OF THE UNION OF INDIA
Below is a transcript of a WhatsApp conversation this morning that a very dear friend of mine and I had on the ongoing raging national debate on Hijab which has grabbed the headlines of every newspaper we read and every TV news channel we watch. THE FRIEND: Good morning! Any views on the nonsensical butContinue reading “TWO FRIENDS TALK ABOUT THE “HIJAB CONTROVERSY” and the STATE OF THE UNION OF INDIA”
China Covid-19 deaths: the uncounted dead who don’t really count
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00104-8 But I wonder why the above Infograph doesn’t show the statistics of reported and excess deaths in China?! That’s a major omission. The standard excuse is “China doesn’t allow media access to its national secrets… In other words, the world should mind it’s own business… you don’t need to count our dead for theyContinue reading “China Covid-19 deaths: the uncounted dead who don’t really count”
Household common-sense and global nuclear-energy economics
Today there are about 440 nuclear power reactors operating in 32 countries, (including Taiwan, which BTW according to China is not a country..) with a combined capacity of about 390 GWe. In 2020 these provided 2553 TWh, about 10% of the world’s electricity. According to recent techno-financial studies by expert groups in the world, theContinue reading “Household common-sense and global nuclear-energy economics”
India-China Foreign Policy: “Strategic Restraint” is really “Strategic Dithering”.
https://www.firstpost.com/india/why-india-should-adopt-chinas-predatory-economic-tactics-in-neighbourhood-10292141.html Above article is an excellent analysis of Indian Foreign policy issue above written by Sri Sathia Moorthy. I couldn’t agree more with his trenchant views. For China, investments in IOR islands has immense geo-strategic value: it ensures China’s presence in the Indian Ocean choke-point of the Malay Straits over which the QUAD and AUKUSContinue reading “India-China Foreign Policy: “Strategic Restraint” is really “Strategic Dithering”.”
THE CORONA VIRUS AND THE “MAD-VIRUS”
When I looked at this Infograph below and read the article in the URL below this morning , I felt my mind being half blown away by the sheer implications of the data presented! https://www.burga.com/blogs/news/mobile-users-spend-over-350-million-daily-on-games-and-apps-in-2021 There is a new pandemic around the corner that is going to envelop the world long after the Coronavirus (hopefullyContinue reading “THE CORONA VIRUS AND THE “MAD-VIRUS””