The glaring sun beat upon the island state of Singapore. Located close to the equator one has to get used to the sweltering heat if you step outside. The traffic discipline on Singapore roads is something you just can’t miss as a tourist. I stood under the shade of a…

Why he’s never going to fold — Roman Abramovich, a Russian oligarch of Jewish origin, famed for being the owner of the football club Chelsea, at the peak of the ongoing Russian- Ukrainian conflict decided to dock his million-dollar yacht in Turkey. Now, why on earth he would choose Turkey of all places is an easy guess. …

Now watch how they light up the sky — Nancy Pelosi may have wanted to go out in style. What better way for her than to visit a renegade republic whose cries for democracy have earned them the ire of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). Now she has clearly left her mark on the political calculus between the…

Are there 10 sides to every story? — It was the middle of the working day. I bent forward with a frown on my face, hearing the triple-buzz on WhatsApp. I was startled when I saw an acquaintance of mine (Kiran) re-tweet a picture that he had seen on Twitter. He then forwarded that tweet to me, accompanied…

Or, a political calculation gone haywire — Peacekeeping forces!! That was the first time I heard about them. They were from NATO. Deployed initially during the Balkan war in the ’90s. Scenes of tanks rolling into the streets of Serbia and Bosnia with CNN’s Christian Amanpour mic’d up in the foreground. …

Should we leave all out-of-the-box solutions to Elon Musk? — Yeah, the planet is warming — tell me something new. I have heard it before, you tune in to CNN and all you see are experts talking about how we can pivot away from fossil fuels. CNN’s Fareed Zakaria a few months ago on his GPS weekly show featured the…

The last time a major war was won without one of the sides even raising a finger was in the years leading up to 1947 when India got her independence from Britain. …

A decade ago, in the middle of a working day I received a call from a colleague from China. He told me that I had wrongfully tagged him on one of my group snaps on Facebook(Meta). I was concerned as I had not tagged him in any photos until I…

Will wolf diplomacy really work for China? — Hide your strength, bide your time — Deng Xiaoping For decades this was the underlying foreign policy doctrine followed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Even when their economy was growing at a runaway rate, they always seemed nonchalant towards the rest of the world. They joined the World Trade…