Darshana & Itihasa: The Civilizational Gaze

Regime change is often sold as precision engineering. Remove the leader, manage the transition, restore order. Clean. Surgical. Final. Linds...

Maduro at 2023 South American summit History has a habit of repeating itself, first as justification and later as regret. Venezuela today st...

The contemporary Western fascination with artificial intelligence is often framed as a triumph of innovation or a natural culmination of sci...

Power is not only measured in armies, alliances, or economic scale. It is also shaped by how a civilisation understands itself — its memory ...

Western commentary has a strange habit: it grows loudest precisely when India refuses to play the role scripted for it. With Russian Preside...

History is often narrated as if it were a sermon. We like to believe that moral clarity triumphs, that civilizations rise when virtues bloss...

Plaque Commemorating Formation of  IMF in July 1944 The global order is a museum of Western power — polished, curated, and protected by velv...

India’s strategic imagination has increasingly shifted from the Himalayas to the high seas. The Indian Ocean, long treated as a backdrop of ...

Bhishma Lying on the Bed of Arrows Among the six classical systems (darshanas) of Indian philosophy, Sankhya and Yoga stand as closely relat...

Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini, Ciano  just before signing the  Munich Agreement, Sept 1938 Since the guns roared in Ukraine and t...

President Reagan with Afghan Mujahideen Oval Office, 1983 Afghanistan and Pakistan are once again at war, each claiming to have struck devas...

“Russia plays chess, China plays Go, and America plays poker.” ~ With this one line, economist Jeffrey Sachs captures the essence of global ...

When Russia sells uranium to the United States, it is deemed a matter of strategic necessity. But when Europe attempts to import Russian oil...

Jawaharlal Nehru is often remembered as Mahatma Gandhi’s chosen disciple, yet the two men embodied strikingly different Indias. Gandhi’s Ind...

Ayn Rand: From reason to a cult of ego  that glorified adultery & abortion “Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to ...

Morality, though revered as an absolute by many philosophers and preachers, is in truth a subjective construct. Its edicts bind the conscien...

Soon after the 1917 Revolution, the Bolsheviks imagined that money itself could be annihilated. They saw Ruble as not a medium of exchange b...

The dream of a universal human nature, so often invoked in the rhetoric of modernity, is not an ancient inheritance of mankind but a relativ...

Socialism and capitalism, though clothed in the rhetoric of salvation, conceal within themselves the seeds of ruin. Socialism, by exalting t...

Collectivism is the fountainhead of culture and civilization. The greater the refinement of a society, the deeper and more intricate are the...

It is fashionable to say that history repeats itself. But if history were truly repetitive, then the future would be a mere echo of the past...