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A critical moment for the world we live in

Without being alarmist, one must take note of the fact that the possibility of a third world war has been more discussed this year – 2022 - than any previous year since 1945.

One hundred seconds to midnight

Once US spy planes brought back evidence of Soviet missiles on Cuban soil, it was inevitable that the Kennedy White House would issue an ultimatum to the Kremlin: ship out of Cuba or face an attack.

India should up global presence with leadership of non-aligned

This would also be a continuation of the important role played by India in promotion of non-alignment in earlier days, although the overall conditions then were somewhat different. However, only a country with firmly rooted internal strengths can aspire to such a leadership role among non-aligned countries which together comprise the majority of the world’s countries.

A pizza, half-baked, was Gorbachev’s legacy

As Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union passed away, a remarkable Pizza Hut advert filmed in 1997 resurfaced. In the ad, Gorbachev walked alongside his granddaughter across Moscow’s famous Red Square and entered a Pizza Hut

Bear’s Embrace~II

Vladimir Putin probably had this grandeur in his mind when he described the breakup of the Soviet Union as the ‘greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century‘, when Russia lost its power and influence in the world, especially in Eastern Europe, besides losing territories it had controlled for centuries.

Not that silly thing again, please

January approaching, it will be time again to reset the ‘Doomsday Clock’. The ‘Doomsday Clock’ which has been maintained by the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board since 1947, represents how far we are from the hypothetical global catastrophe, denoted by ‘midnight’.