Iran: A House of Trojans!
The Israel attack on Iran is a developing story. On June 13, at around 4 am Friday, Israel attacked Iran, on its nuclear facilities and reportedly killed Iran’s top military…
Haider Abbas
Ali Khan Mehmudabad Case: The ‘Larger-Message’ of the Supreme Court
At 12:15 pm, on May 21, the nation had come to know that Ali Khan Mehmudabad, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ashoka University, has been granted interim bail by the…
Ali Khan Mehmudabad Versus Vijay Shah: Government ‘double-speak’ exposed, yet again!
I am writing this piece as a personal note. Out of my long standing selfless friendship I had with Amir Muhammed Sulieman Khan aka Raja Sahab Mehmudabad. His son, Ali…
Waqf Amendment Act-2025 will fail Constitution!
The Waqf Amendment Act-2025, passed by the Parliament, owing to the betrayal of Nitish Kumar and Chandra Babu Naidu to ‘secularism’, has been subjected to an interim stay, by Chief…
Babri Masjid sacrificed at the altar of Judiciary
The Supreme Court, under Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, has decided to pause ‘certain’ clauses of the blatantly anti-Constitution Waqf Act-2025, until May 5, which will stop government to…
Review of ‘Adolescence’: It matters to all!
While watching Adolescence, a four-part OTT series at Netflix, it could easily be related what nearly everyone in this world has gone through. Adolescence the pre-young age, which every man…
Review: ‘How to Survive a War Zone’
The 60 minute watch of ‘The Word BBC How to Survive a War Zone’ documentary, has been splendid in both realms-the tangible and the digital, notwithstanding the fact that BBC…
Anora Film Review: Cinderella’s Flip Flop with No Prince Charming
The film Anora, as it opens, takes viewers for an unbridled voyeurism as a striptease bar is open where topless girls split their legs on silhouettes. Topless girls now are…
‘Conclave’: Slick Drama Of An Untold Truth
How a Pope is to be elected, is all its essence, in today’s world marred by anti-religion movements, agnosticism, atheism and what not, has been mainstreamed in the film 'Conclave',…
Agra:Riveting and Ruthless story of our Indian daily life
When I started to review the film Agra, selected for Director’s Fortnight, premiered at Cannes-2023, a Yoodle film, released in France in April 2024, available on Dailymotion.com/in, I was stuck…
Paatal Lok Season 2: A Treasure
When I did see Paatal Lok-1, I must say I treasured it. The five years hiatus for Paatal Lok-2 resurrection has been worth it. The OTT series, streamed on Amazon…
Nothing ‘exclusive’ about Black Warrant
In an era of internet and with practically every information, about whosever or whomsoever, it is surely an onerous task to recreate a film drama, even if there is much-room…
The twosome Salim-Javed ‘script’ gone wrong!
I watched the three-parts docu-series ‘Angry Young Men’ based on the lives and times of the writer duo Salim-Javed, with quite an attention, as both these men, despite the fact,…
Reading The Riot Act
It is now 19 years when Gujarat 2002 riots happened. The public memory of the nation has forgotten the event. Until has come a book Under Cover My Journey into the Darkness…
US-China Cross Swords Over Taiwan
The US efforts to ruffle-feathers with China does not seem to cease as US has sent its senior Keith Krach to Taipei, the capital of Taiwan on September 17, 2020,…
India-China Situation Aggravates
The two world largest armies and unarguably the Asian largest economy and the third largest economy China and India seem determined to undermine each other in this seemingly uneasy scenario…
Gilgit-Baltistan Is The New Hotspot
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced to make Gilgit-Baltistan, a part of the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir, as the fifth province of Pakistan on September 17, 2020,…
Afghanistan On A Very Sticky Wicket
The Afghan-Taliban and the US sponsored Ashraf Ghani government seem to be heading towards a deadlock, as very soon US, after its disastrous war with Afghan-Taliban , is slated to…
India-China Poised On A Razor’s Edge
The situation between China-India and with India-Pakistan is now into an extremely sensitive zone as there is a report for the first time from the Indian army, though through a…
Has Rajnath Singh Signalled War Preparedness?
When Indian defense minister Rajnath Singh declared on record, in parliament, that China is illegally occupying 38,000 sq. kms of land in Ladakh 1 and eyeing further 90,000 sq. kms…
Indian Defence Minister Admits In Parliament That China Has Occupied 38,000 sq. kms. Of Land In Ladakh
When India’s external affairs minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, met in Moscow on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on September 10, 2020, and issued…
Bahrain-Israel Ties: The Second Wicket Has Fallen
The UAE-Israel formalisation of ties on August 14, 2020 1, was a bang and Bahrain-Israel normalisation of ties declared on September 12, 2020 2 turned out to be a…
India Not To Allow ‘Khalistan Referendum 2020’
It is well known fact that the Khalistan movement, which was to make a separate homeland for the Sikhs within India, had been considered ‘long-dead’ by the Indian government, after…
India, Israel And The Arab States
The president of US Donald Trump is of course too much meant to be busy for the November 2020 elections, and despite the stand-off with China on many fronts, particularly…
For Iran China Is In, India Not
India’s war with China is getting more and more imminent, as what has finally come out, after the talks between India’s defence minister Rajnath Singh and his Chinese counterpart Wei…
From ‘Greater-Turkey’ To ‘Blue-Homeland’
The real ‘Turkish-Delight’ was into its consonance as Turkey President Tayyip Erdogan, on August 21, 2020 announced the discovery of large reserves of oil/gas and hydrocarbons in Mediterranean sea 1…
Is War Imminent?
India which is already bogged down by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic as its economy is into a ‘meltdown’, right now is in quite a piquant position as the…
How ‘QUAD’ To Counter China On The Lines Of NATO
The first-round between China and US, from the past couple of months, has gone to the US side, as surely and certainly a lot is happening in terms of geo-politics,…
USA Is Wary Of China
The US Office of the Secretary of Defense Report released on Sep 2, 2020, is a 200-page document available free in PDF form, is named as Military and Security Developments…
Turkey To Take On European Union All Alone
The world is dangerously heading towards a war which eventually has the likelihood to change into a world-war. There are now conflict zones getting ‘more aggravated’ owing to geo-political needs…
India Not Able To Fully Abandon Russia
One development which surely has skipped its ‘deserving-importance’ and which could not evoke the due coverage , despite the on-going clashes and conflict hotting-up between India and China, the latest…
Is India Prepared For A Two-Front War?
Photo Courtesy: India Today All the news of de-escalation between China and India, has turned out to be farce, as the heat which began in May 2020, and which reached…
Iran Sitting On A Ticking Powder Keg
Shahran oil depot in north west Tehran has been likened to a "hydrogen bomb" The subterfuge and sabotage, particularly after the August 4, 2020 Beirut, Lebanon blasts 1…
Israel To Keep An Eye On Pakistan via Yemen
How many of us have had any clue about Socotra Island which had recently been in news ( on June 21, 2020) when it was reported 1 that Houthi…
US-China Showdown Has Begun
US is itching for a war. In fact it is inching towards a war, a war which probably will have the full potential to change into a ‘third-world-war’, solely,…
Israel Will Never Allow Pakistan Have Access To UAE’s F-35
When US made UAE and Israel to normalise their bi-lateral relations, on August 14, 2020, within ten days when the flames of Beirut, Lebanon had not even got doused, the…
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia humiliates Pakistan
The political developments in Gulf-region are leaving no scope to imagination that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is now working as an extended-arm of US, which is what…
The Reckoning Is Ought To Be Tough With China
The developments in world polity took to a storm when on August 14, 2020, United Arab Emirates(UAE) and Israel decided to normalise their relations 1 , with Kingdom of Saudi…
Israel-UAE Bonhomie: The Dangers Ahead
Even when the flames of the blasts of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon 1 on August 4, 2020, had not doused, where death and destruction, misfortune and misery has become…
Turkey And Greece-Israel Heading For A Showdown
There are conflict zones or rather war-zones fast developing in the world right now. India is facing Pakistan in Kashmir, China in Ladakh and China is facing US, Japan, Australia,…
The Israel – UAE Bonhomie
The improbable and unprecedented has happened. United Arab Emirates (UAE) has declared to normalise relations with the state of Israel on August 14, 2020 1 , after a phone-call between…
India To Face China-Pakistan ‘Hand in Hand’ in Mountains and Oceans
The China-Pakistan ‘hand in hand’ against India has now come all out in the open after the USNews.com 1 on August 6, 2020, published an elaborate report as to how…
Israel Threatens Pakistan and Saudi Arabia Ditches Pakistan on Kashmir
The day when Lebanon blasts occurred i.e. August 4, 2020, the same day a news was floated that Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is clandestinely pursuing a nuclear-agenda with the…
An Arab Autumn 2.0 Awaits To Happen
The purported Arab Spring 2.0 which I would say as Arab Autumn 2.0 has begun, and the bad omens are writ large, as not even a week has passed, that…
US Anyhow Want CPEC/BRI Dead
There seems to be a different wind blowing from US as President Donald Trump is gearing to meet to his November 2020 elections, and has dropped a signal, that…
Beirut Will Take Decades To Rebuild
Lebanon, the Switzerland of Middle-East and its capital Beirut-the Paris of Middle-East, a house to 2.4 million people 1 , out of 6.8 2 million in whole of Lebanon ,…
Through Sanctions On Iran US To Target CPEC And BRI
It was to be only for naives, not to have expected US to throw a spanner into the Iran-China 400 billion USD ‘trade and military’ deal , for 25 years…
India To Take China On Its Own
The heat around the Himalayas is getting hard and talks between India-China have as yet only failed and it is now for India to finally take-on China on its own,…
Iran And Israel Spar Over Cyber Warfare
There is a whole lot of churning going on in Iran, which has been at loggerheads with US, for around more than five-decades, as it traces its modern tussle with…
India Caught Between US And China-Russia Duel
The events unfolding in terms of military deployment and military exercises by US in South China sea are a clear sign that any small spark is to lead to triggering…
The Growing China – Israel Conflict
The ‘annexation deal’ which is referred as ‘deal of the century’ under which Israel is to annex West Bank of Palestine and for which Donald Trump is being heavily…
The Haqeeqat of our defense policy
There is a new body-posturing everyday by China over the parts of India, some already under its control in Ladakh, and China is now putting claim over Arunachal Pradesh…
US In A Downward Spiral
The US Presidential election by November 2020 is slowly-slowly gaining momentum and Donald Trump and Joseph Biden are into a gruelling battle for the coveted rank. US all over…
Hagia Sophia – Babri Masjid And Temple Mount
There hasn’t been any news in the world media as to what Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad Al Makli said on June 16, 2020, about how the purported annexation of…
India Both Internally And Externally Strained
As if the Chabahar debacle was not enough, as Iran scrapped its deal with India and instead entered into a 400 billion USD deal with China, that Iran has also…
US-India-Israel Versus China-Pakistan-Iran Axis
The Chabahar (Iran), which means four-springs, fiasco for New Delhi was quite in the making. India invested in Chabahar to reach to the market in the Arab world and more…
India Is Well Into The Great Game
What has triggered the on-going Indo-China face-off , if not its roots are to be found in August 5, 2019 when BJP led NDA-2 abrogated J&K Article 370 and made…
Foreign Policy Is Not An Easy Cake
In BJP led NDA-1 Narendra Modi was quite much on a whirlwind tour of the world. It is estimated that by July 2020 he had visited 60 countries with many…
Gulabo-Shitabo In The First Place
I am not a polyglot. I am unbeknownst to Urdu-my mother’s language for I am the unfortunate generation who learnt English as well as Urdu sonnets but without Urdu in…
Kashmir And Turkey
It must have been music to China ears, battling with Coronavirus rising number of deaths in its Wuhan province , when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced from Pakistan alongside…
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