Meltdown

Ukraine's fate and future is tied to Europe's autonomy and independence. Everything rests on how we tie these interests and expand this bond. Autonomy and independence of European Union is possible under the aegis of NATO?  If cold war is a thing of past, shouldn't that yardstick also apply to NATO? US-led Nato has repeatedly failed to treat other members at par and take other nations in confidence while acting unilaterally on whatever it has identified in its interest. Can we talk about autonomy and independence for Europe without talking about United States of America and Russia(USSR)? Autonomy and independence is not only a feature of imagination reconstruction or exclusively belong to the normative domain, it can be attained with real conditions and limits. After, with and beyond the Russian invasion Ukraine's autonomy and independence should be sought within these parameters. Pledges of support and expressions of solidarity with Ukraine are welcome but now that war...

Bubbles don't have seams. Seamless Social media time line is a bubble or they represent one? A Time line exists irrespective of and beyond social media time lines. Time lines interact, intersect, overlap and occasionally assert their independence with each other. Print and electronic medium were expected to represent time lines, offer some answers to the question : what is happening now. Within the four walls of the immediate, interest, relevance and power; the time lines were presented and represented in media for information, consumption and for action. Pandemic and State of Economy The media managers and opinion makers have been presenting strikes in terms of cost to exchequer; as the standard to tabulate productivity and its loss and pandemic induced lockdown arrived. The acknowledgement of labour and its relation to productivity in the mainstream does not go beyond it. The hinges that under-grid common sense had parted ways long back. Lockdowns were presented without factori...

No physical occupation and military presence of foreign powers and yes no puppet government either. No meddling in our affairs by outside powers through foisted governments and structures. Yes I was dreaming; a dream that has been dreamt thousand times over in the colonised world. The reality took over in Afghanistan before the dream could unfold. Afghan and Afghanistan are nationalist terms and following the   logic of nationalism they discount the ethnic, regional and religious composition of the people that make a nation. The Hazara, Baloch, Pashtuns, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks and Tajiks are some of the communities who consider Afghanistan their home. A list of communities cannot describe Afghanistan better. Can a religion define Afghanistan, when various communities individually and collectively hasn't? Afghanistan’s history and recent episodes suggest otherwise. Afghanistan history is no longer its own history but a history of cold war, I suspect it is also true about its future. It be...