DASHRATH – KAIKEYI: When Matrimony Goes Sour
There was a much-married king and there was his favourite queen. They lived together happily till the queen decided to extract from her king the price of her fealty. The aging king died of shock,…
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Biden and the Gaza war
Harsha Kakar Confusion prevails in the US on how exactly to manage the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict. This is compounded by forthcoming elections where Biden faces Donald Trump. Trump has largely maintained his silence on the…
Rolling out theaterization
Harsha Kakar ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ has been the mantra for reorganization of the armed forces for decades and would have continued if the Government had not decided to implement theatre commands.…
Indian elections and world opinion
Harsha Kakar The fourth round of polling of India’s parliamentary elections, marking the crossing of midway of the election process has just concluded. As per inputs approximately 970 million Indians, about 10 percent of the…
The Khalistan factor
Harsha Kakar India-Canadian ties have hit rock bottom since Justin Trudeau, the Canadian PM, began giving additional space to Khalistan supporters. Trudeau’s two visits to India, in Feb 2018 and the G 20 summit last…
Great power proxies dragging Middle East to disaster
K N Pandita Of many irritants in US-Iran relations, the one that has often exacerbated tension between them is Iran’s irresistible fervour for acquiring nuclear capability. Iran never accepted the bombast of the so-called Islamic…
Is Ukraine losing the war
Harsha Kakar After stalling for months, the US Congress finally approved USD 61 billion military assistance for Ukraine. Of the funds cleared, USD 23 billion will be expended to replenish US military stockpiles, thereby enabling…
Escalation in the Middle East
Harsha Kakar Israel had vowed to strike back at Iran for the missile and drone strikes on its soil. It did so last week. It claimed to have targeted the Isfahan province which has an…
German criticism and the Indian market
Harsha Kakar The German foreign ministry commented adversely on the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha in March last year. Its foreign ministry spokesperson mentioned in Berlin, ‘We have taken note of the…
Chandrayaan-3 scripted history in space technology
K N Pandita Referring to ISRO’s failure to soft-land Chandrayaan-2 in 2019, Prime Minister Modi said that failure always teaches us how to succeed. While attending the BRICS summit in South Africa, the Prime Minister…