The Human and Strategic Costs of a US Strike on Iran
The relevance of G7 and BRICS figures among the casualties list, but not Iranian nuclear capability; how should India react in this situation?
TK Arun
TK Arun is a Senior Journalist and Columnist based in Delhi.
A quiet voice from the Global South as imperialism unfolds.
The bombing of Iran represents the return of old-style imperialism, making the point that might is right with the biggest bang possible without exploding an atomic bomb. Which cat got the tongue of India, leader of the Global South, when the US bombed Iran? Why did the tongue of India, leader of the BRICS, turn mute, when the world called on Israel, at the UN, to end its genocide in Gaza? Cat, Cat burning bright, in the forests of Mt Zion and Washington DC, why this appetite for India’s respect among nations?
At the Heart of Israel-Iran Conflict: Western Domination
The subjective compulsion might be Netanyahu’s need to keep a war going to stay in power, but the objective result is driving home the point that might is right:
As Israel and Iran exchange missiles, and Iran gets battered, with its oil and gas facilities getting destroyed, what is at stake for India? Should India worry about anything beyond the price of oil going up, and of possible disruptions to shipping through the straits of Hormuz? Or, as Islamophobes tweet in India, should India be happy that the Islamic theocracy of Iran is being humiliated? Does Israel’s support of the Indian position over Operation Sindoor override all other considerations, including moral compunctions over the genocide still underway in Gaza? Or should collateral damage to the Haifa port, operated by an Indian company, the Adanis, be the major consideration for India?
GVA over GDP: Understanding the real growth of Indian economy
GDP growth rate is the headline number everyone tracks, to figure out how the economy is doing. It is time we shifted focus to the Gross Value Added, or GVA, which is a more direct measure of the incomes generated in the economy. GDP numbers are affected by random decisions of the GST Council to raise tax rates or by the government’s decision to slash subsidies.
Navigating the Competitive Landscape with China and How to Respond
As China continues to rise in economic, technological and military might, and the US, wallows in self-harm, instead of competing, India has to redouble its efforts to build strategic strength at all levels, both in mission mode as it has been doing in key areas, but at a more general, systemic level, as well. In the latter task, India has been negligent so far.
A week of global shifts: The dollar decline, India’s economic momentum, and legal development
History usually creeps upon you in homoeopathic doses, unless it happens with a bang, such as the 9/11 attacks, or with a whimper, such as when the US exited Saigon, defeated and humbled, and being forced to retreat after having dropped more bombs on Vietnam than it had on the Axis powers during all of World War II.