I spent 25+ years working as an expatriate corporate manager in the Arabian Gulf countries from 1993 through 2020. In my line of work I travelled to many countries across the Middle East — UAE through Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Turkiye, Morocco … And I worked with many colleagues there who were Saudis, Bahrainis, KuwaitisContinue reading ““Chaos Theory” underlies American foreign policy right across the Arab World”
Tag Archives: Geo-Political
BRICS+6 Identity Crisis: An alliance of fair-weather friends or frenemies?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-08-25/brics-identity-crisis The identity crisis of BRICS+6 in my opinion will emerge sooner or later caused mainly by the following 6 reasons: 1. China and India are going to be competitors in world trade in the next 2 decades. 2. India’s membership of QUAD which is a formation to contain China will very soon be conflictedContinue reading “BRICS+6 Identity Crisis: An alliance of fair-weather friends or frenemies?”
“Friendly friends”, “unfriendly friends” and “friendly unfriendlies”.
There are only 4 nations now in the world that have demonstrated capability to orbit and land space-vehicles on the moon — USA 🇺🇸 China 🇨🇳 , Russia 🇷🇺 and now the latest entrant into the exclusive club, India 🇮🇳. President Putin of Russia was the very first one to immediately send his country’s congratulatoryContinue reading ““Friendly friends”, “unfriendly friends” and “friendly unfriendlies”.”
The “Biden-Modi Agreement”: Over-ambitious equestrian acrobatics?
Prime Minister Modi is in the USA today ! And over the next few days INDIA and USA are expected to sign landmark long-term agreements which will commit the latter to unprecedented defence and trade ties favouring the former. India is said to be on the cusp of a so-called “heralding of a totally newContinue reading “The “Biden-Modi Agreement”: Over-ambitious equestrian acrobatics?”
“The Economist” (UK) on America’s new best friend, INDIA
Here’s my own take on this editorial published in the latest issue of of The Economist UK : (please scroll right down to read the reproduced piece) 1. The title should have been rephrased as “ America’s new best fair-weather friend”. 2. India is certainly more democratic and far less liberal than the West. Why?Continue reading ““The Economist” (UK) on America’s new best friend, INDIA”
My Sunday morning crystal-ball gazing into global geopolitics
Fareed Zakaria of CNN posed all the right questions to German Chancellor Schulz and got all the right sounding answers. But to me watching the video, the interview sounded pretty menacingly portentous for the future of the world in decades to come. On a quiet Sunday morning yesterday , I couldn’t thus help falling intoContinue reading “My Sunday morning crystal-ball gazing into global geopolitics”
At last India now has a diplomat with a whiplash tongue that’s more than 56 inches long !
No punches pulled … India’s EAM and diplomat S. Jaishankar puts an Austrian TV anchor in his place … with devastating zingers ! Never before in history have I heard an Indian Foreign Minister speak so candidly and authoritatively in a foreign forum… Usually they would hum and haw and mumble vaguely and duck loadedContinue reading “At last India now has a diplomat with a whiplash tongue that’s more than 56 inches long !”
“How Hanuman offers lessons for India’s and the world’s public diplomacy orientation today”
Yesterday the author Sri. Sudarshan Ramabhadran of an article published in THE PRINT online magazine sent me his below email which is self explanatory I read the article and was so impressed by it that I responded to Sudarshan Ramabhadran with my own take on the subject. Here is my email below: Hello Sri SudarshanContinue reading ““How Hanuman offers lessons for India’s and the world’s public diplomacy orientation today””
“Walking the Talk” – Japanese and Indian styles: A study in contrast
A friend of mine forwarded me this morning a note on “Ten Japanese concepts that will improve your life”. I share it below. They are truly very wise and profound , these Japanese Concepts and Doctrines of living . 1: “Oubaitori” Never compare yourself. Everyone blossoms in their own time in different ways. 2: “Kaizen”.Continue reading ““Walking the Talk” – Japanese and Indian styles: A study in contrast”
STATE CAPITALISM: “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”?
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”?”