Imran and Benazir – Faint Similarity; Predictable Consequence

The attack on Imran Khan is not something out of the blue. The New Indian had expressed concerns back in early September about the possibility of incidents along the same lines.

Europe’s Date With Nationalism

With Giorgia Meloni becoming their Prime Minister, Italy becomes the fourth nation in mainland Europe that has wholeheartedly voted for nationalistic, right-aligned parties to power. There is a speech by PM Meloni that received a lot of traction; got translated into different languages, English included. The readers are advised to watch it. What is notable […]

Ukraine-22: Lessons For The Proponents Of Multipolarity

Different mindsets, too much mistrust, a host of unresolved issues, significant socio-cultural hangovers, and other unknowns – is the collective baggage that contenders of global multipolarity carry on their back.

What Are Some Options For Pakistan?

An internalisation of the first constant: Pakistan has mutated into an entity that cannot bank on long-term strategies – is important at the beginning. Pakistan could have sailed long-term, back in the 1950s, but not anymore. Its character has not just shaped, but has ossified its destiny. So, the Pakistan of today has only short […]

Nord Stream Blasts Opens Up Several Fault Lines Within The West 

The reaction of the West to the Russian Special Operation did well to fairly expose the inner structure of their Imperialist Club. The Nord Stream blasts have managed to keep the focus on that exposure.  

Islam And A Very British Love Affair

The Leicester Riots coincided with Rishi Sunak losing the race for Prime Ministership. It is a stretch to assume that Rishi becoming the Prime Minister of the UK would have resulted in anything good for the thousands of Indians residing there, nonetheless, the Islamists chose to use this event as a symbol. The attacks on […]

Izyum Counteroffensive And Ukraine Updates 

There was a sudden scramble of big proportions a few days ago among the Ukraine watchers: Russian special operations forces had retreated! It so happened that the Ukrainian forces organised a counteroffensive and they pushed the Russian forces out from Izyum and a couple of important points in the Kharkov Oblast.   The Russians defending the region […]

Global Multipolarity And BJP’s Domestic Ineptitude

There is a social media post that I put up about a year ago. It was a morphed picture of Vladimir Putin in a medieval crown. My footnote was: About a hundred years from now, when the dust settles on the first few decades of the twenty-first century, people might manage to dispassionately examine the […]

US Cannot Win In Eurasia, But It Can Sabotage

Has it ever occurred to you what could be the US’s possible end-game in the present scenario?

Would Turkish Trajectory To Neo-Ottomanism Work?

Analysts over the world have been watching the recent rise of Turkey with extreme interest. It made a certain kind of sense when experts like Brzezinski or Friedman predicted Turkey’s rise as a regional power. But that kind of sense that builds itself up around forecasts printed on the pages of a book usually gets […]