India
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India disavows ‘Tianjin spirit’, turns to EU
India found itself in an uncomfortable situation like a cat on a hot roof at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation event in Tianjin, China, with the Western media hyping up its unlikely role in a troika with Russia and China to chariot the world order toward a brave new era of multipolarity. Continue reading
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Brazil, India and Azerbaijan In Play
The wheels of geopolitics keep turning, and the aims of the US policies have become very evident with respect to these three countries: Brazil: Reinstate US dominance and Brazilian vassalage in America’s “backyard” India: Undermine Russia by cutting off its oil sales, while forcing India to reduce its linkages with BRINKCISTAN (Belarus, Russia, Iran, North… Continue reading
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India–Pakistan war: The winners and the losers
Chinese military hardware stole the show, French ones lost their stock, India’s clout took hits, and Pakistanis crowed. Yet, ultimately, the brief, hot India–Pakistan war was a victory only for the Global North’s divide-and-rule project for the Global South. Continue reading
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Logic and reasoning in the time of war
One of the saddest things about India’s lurch toward transforming as a national security state through the past decade since our late ‘peacenik prime minister’ Manmohan Singh handed over power has been the gradual atrophying and the virtual eclipse today of the peace movement in our country. Continue reading
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🇵🇰🇮🇳The only winners in a Pakistan-India war is the United States and Western hegemony
The US has been busy at work for decades fomenting division between Pakistan, India, and China as part of a divide and conquer strategy across Eurasia. Continue reading
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Going to Kashmir…just to find Alice in Wonderland
The taboos happen to be inextricably linked to the Forever Wars deployed non-stop by the Empire of Chaos/Zionist axis. Lesser Hybrid Wars though – even carrying the horrifying prospect of turning nuclear – are allowed to come and go. Especially if they are part of the current war on BRICS, a sub-section of the war… Continue reading
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A Message to the Western Left
Starting to write this, the first question that I ask myself is, who am I addressing? While the divisions among the left in general are notorious anywhere in the world, they are at another level when it comes to the so-called West, which is ironic given the almost non-existent success of the left in that… Continue reading
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India’s military support to Israel is a hideous mistake
Doesn’t the government realise that this is adding to the growing perception internationally that the current government is ‘Islamophobic’ and ‘anti-Muslim’? Continue reading
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Manipur escalation draws attention to Myanmar
The sharp escalation by the Kuki militants in Manipur has shaken up the Indian establishment but the ensuing jingoistic outcry in sections of the media demands a muscular approach to addressing the problem of militancy. This is fraught with serious consequences. Continue reading
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Adani’s fraudulent empire exposed
A SMALL U.S. investor firm has challenged the Indian behemoth, the Adani group, and shaken it to its foundations. The Hindenburg Research, a short selling firm, brought out a 129-page report on the Adani group marshaling evidence of all the funding operations and offshore activities of the 578 subsidiaries and shell companies linked to the… Continue reading
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Not The India that Modi Sees
December 2019 — The New Dark Age By Supratim Barman [I wrote this in December 2019, and, I feel it to be still relevant today within the context of the recently published 2-part BBC Documentary on PM Modi, as well as the nearly 65% loss in Market Value of Adani Enterprises after the publication of Continue reading
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China’s economy is on a rebound
In truth, we don’t need to like or support – and may even abhor – the targets of media bias highlighted in our analyses. Our goal is simply to provide examples that most clearly expose the propaganda function of ‘mainstream’ media. Inevitably, that involves our focusing on thorns in the Establishment’s side. Continue reading
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India’s got the BRICS blues
The Brazilian news agency reported that Lula da Silva’s inauguration as the new president on January 1 for a historic third term amidst a carnival-like backdrop was attended by over five dozen foreign delegations, composed of heads of government, vice presidents, foreign ministers, special envoys and representatives of international organisations. It was the largest event… Continue reading
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Modi ignores West’s sanctions on Russia
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday marks a new stage in the bilateral relationship between the two time-tested friends, both contextually and from a long-term perspective. Continue reading
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British empire killed 165 million Indians in 40 years: How colonialism inspired fascism
British colonialism caused at least 100 million deaths in India in roughly 40 years, according to an academic study. Continue reading
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India’s gaffe at Samarkand
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Samarkand on September 16 after the SCO Summit turned into a media scandal. The Western media zeroed in on six words culled out of context in the PM’s opening remarks — “today’s era is not of war” — to triumphantly proclaim that India is finally distancing… Continue reading
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Big picture of disengagement in Ladakh
Saturday, 10 September 2022 — Indian Punchline by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR The Ministry of External Affairs has done the right thing by explaining its taciturn press release on Thursday in a single sentence regarding the disengagement of troops in the area of Gogra-Hotsprings along the LAC in the Western Sector of India-China border areas. Continue reading
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Timely assertion of India’s strategic autonomy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address at the plenary sessions of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) at Vladivostok has been a regular feature of the annual event since 2019. But this year’s address on Wednesday was invested with added significance as the PM was speaking for the first time on India-Russia relationship after Moscow’s special military… Continue reading
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India’s energy diplomacy blossoms, finally
To be sure, energy security has surged as the key to a country’s strategic autonomy and independence, as world events testify, currently within the matrix of “food-fertiliser-fuel” sufficiency where the global supply chains are disrupted. Europe’s missteps on this front, upon the advice of the US to atrophy and severe the continent’s seven decades-long economic… Continue reading
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100 years of Russian gas for India
India is taking baby steps toward green energy. Two of India’s biggest business houses are spearheading it — Adani and Ambani groups. India has made several ambitious commitments at the Glasgow climate summit and two key pledges were that India’s non-fossil energy capacity will reach 500 GW by 2030 and the country will transition to… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 