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To Be or Not To Be: Iran-US War and Lessons for the Global South

To Be or Not To Be: Iran-US War and Lessons for the Global South

What did U.S. President Donald Trump get wrong after deciding to attack Iran? And what did he get right? What made him attack Iran? And what are the...

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L’affaire Minnesota: Whose America is it Anyway?

With slanted coverage and an almost complete occlusion of alternate points of view, even in news, by the ‘mainstream media’ in the US, a neutral...

26.01.2026 20

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The Greenland Gambit: How Trump Could Reshape World Order

Post the “invasion” of Venezuela and the whisking away of its President, Nicolas Maduro, US President Donald Trump and his team have upped the...

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Was Maduro’s Capture Written Into the US NSS 2025?

Three themes coalesce in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. One is the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). This pertains to the...

05.01.2026 10

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Trump’s Blueprint for a New American Era

Notwithstanding the spin by America’s “mainstream media” on the United States National Security 2025 document released by the Trump...

14.12.2025 20

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Wake-Up Call: What Orientalists Got Right About Kashmir

Orientalism, a hoary discipline and a corpus of texts that probed into the vitals of non-Western societies, was poignantly and trenchantly critiqued...

11.12.2025 10

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Why Donald Trump Can’t Afford a U-Turn on Immigration

Cultural differences are real. These can constitute grounds for frisson, friction and conflict, injuring societies in the process.  To illustrate the...

24.11.2025 10

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Notes on War(making) in the 21st Century

One pithy aphorism from the great philosopher and theorist of war, Sun Tzu, is: “The art of war is winning without fighting.” This may seem like...

09.11.2025 10

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Trump-Xi Meeting That Will Determine War And Peace in the 21st Century

Three themes, two historical events and the other a concept from physics, may best describe (or even define) the meeting between Donald Trump and Xi...

31.10.2025 20

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Kashmir’s New Money: Pomp, Prejudice, and Social Games

Class differences and social hierarchies are a feature of the human condition. But these get articulated in different expressions and idioms in...

27.09.2025 10

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Welcome ‘Home’, Stranger: A Brown Man’s Burden in an ‘Open’ World

The onset of the neo-liberal wave of globalization in the post-Cold War 1990s triggered massive flows of people into the West. These movements were...

01.09.2025 20

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Trumpism Will Outlast Donald Trump. Here’s Why 

The United States, as gleaned from ‘mainstream’ media and the hullabaloo raised thereof, appears to be in crisis mode, almost on the verge of...

24.08.2025 20

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An Open Letter to Zohran Mamdani

Dear Zohran! First things first: Congratulations for a well-deserved, well-earned and emphatic victory!  Against all odds, against entrenched...

27.06.2025 20

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Did Trump Just Outfox Everyone?

Whatever be the reasons for Donald Trump’s U turns- Iran’s deft, resolute, and fierce resistance, the threat by Iran of choking the Strait of...

26.06.2025 10

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Harvard’s Trumpian Blues: Can it Renew Itself?

In a convoluted, zigzagged, sometimes nice, at times vicious but mostly serendipitous way, I have been the beneficiary of the western university...

25.05.2025 10

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Australia: Has Albanese Won on the Back of Trump?

Like him or hate him, Donald Trump is both an electrifying, galvanizing and rallying figure. An eloquent validation of this is the insipid,...

05.05.2025 20

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Are the Yemen Attacks about Houthis?

Soon after the US president Donald Trump ordered attacks on Yemen’s Houthis ‘to free up shipping lanes’, about 31 people were killed in the...

18.03.2025 20

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Can Kashmir Produce Great Works Anymore?

When prejudice masquerades as ‘intellect’ and ‘analysis’ and when certainty induced criticism is a proxy for narcissistic self -aggrandizement...

26.02.2025 20

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Kashmiri is Dying—Speak Before It’s Silent Forever!

In reductive and prosaic terms, ‘a living language is one that is used and spoken by people of a given society or culture’. Given this, is...

23.02.2025 10

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Donald Trump’s ‘Jordanian Option’ is a Non-Starter. Here’s why

US president Donald Trump deserved all credit for the ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon. Apparently, the president’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff,...

28.01.2025 40

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Between Romanticism & West’s ‘Enlightenment’

In the 17th and 18th centuries, a movement arose in the west. One major premise of this movement was doubt. Pioneered by a bunch of brilliant...

18.12.2024 5

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