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Governance By The Unelected
- May 12, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Category: India
No CommentsI hear the hollow rattle of death racking up our toll of sorrow. The rattle starts when the wail of the siren fades. Today is the tenth day when the death toll has crossed 3000.
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India On The Mend
- May 12, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Category: India
We got caught unprepared due to some plain incompetency, lack of teamwork, power greed at political and administrative levels. We are paying an inordinately heavy price for it.
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WHO IS LEADING DELHI OUT OF THIS CRISIS?
- May 12, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Category: India
Who is leading Delhi out of this crisis? The PM? The HM? The CM? The SC? The HC? The LG? Delhi, our national capital seems to be a rudderless boat adrift in a storm.
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WILL CHINA ESCALATE THE LADAKH SITUATION
- May 12, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: China, India
WILL CHINA ESCALATE THE LADAKH SITUATION.I had a very long and interesting discussion on the current covid situation in a geopolitical context with Aadi Achint.
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Indian Leadership Vs Chinese Virus
- May 12, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Category: India
Who is winning the war between the Chinese virus and Indian leadership at present? Any guesses? To me it’s very clear.
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WHICH MASK DO YOU PREFER?
- May 12, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Category: India
I hear continuous wailing of sirens of ambulances taking patients stricken with the Chinese virus to hospitals. Are they banshees carting people to death or are they angels of mercy flying them to recovery?
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Palestine: A Forgotten Chimera
- April 23, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Category: Middle East
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Afghanistan: What does the future portend?
- April 16, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Categories: Afghanistan, Strategic Issues
Oblivious Precepts
Before we analyse the future portends for Afghanistan, let me spell out some oblivious precepts, which have a bearing on the likely prognosis.
* War/confrontation is seen as an exception, an extreme and an aberration in international affairs; the paradox is that it is the invention of peace which is the artificial edifice. -
Ladakh didn’t work out for China. It will now drive a wedge between Quad partners
- April 14, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Category: China
In the contemporary global geopolitical landscape, China has evoked more fear than hope. It has displayed an impressive capacity for political organisation to pursue its objectives. After nearly three decades of resting hopes on a China that will be a responsible power in the international system, there is now an increased consensus among most Western and Asian powers that a collective approach is necessary to tackle it.
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Seventh Fleet move a reminder that Quad must remain a group of equals, not a US-led posse
- April 14, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: China, India, Indian Ocean Region
The US Navy’s Seventh Fleet statement of 7 April 2021, after the freedom of navigation operation off Maldives in India’s Exclusive Economic Zone or the EEZ, even if legally valid, and watered down later by the Pentagon Spokesman, was unwarranted and seems indifferent to the sensitive phase in India-US relations.
