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Hijab riots in Iran: How much of it is staged and not organic?

Ashish Shukla - October 2, 2022

My default position is to question the narrative of mainstream media who suffer from amnesia in likewise incidents elsewhere. The Hijab riots in Iran is...

Why Saudis didn’t take Biden’s bait on Iran?

Ashish Shukla - July 18, 2022

Our good old Joe (Biden) went to Jeddah. He was meeting more than half his age Muhammed bin Salman (MbS)—36 to his 79—and hoping his...

The New Cold War isn’t just about the two Superpowers

Ashish Shukla - June 13, 2022

It is easy to understand both India and Russia won’t like to be too dependent on either the United States or China who battle...

Hamid Ansari: Why ex-RAW officers wanted him probed for his conduct in Tehran?

Panchmukha - January 28, 2022

(Hamid Ansari was vice-president of India for 10 long years, between 2007-2017. He has caught eye with his rant, mostly recently for speaking from...

New Delhi calling Tehran: An Afghanistan both can’t afford to lose to Pakistan

Ashish Shukla - August 29, 2021

Imagine you have a dispute in neighbourhood. But the mediation is brokered by the colony next. Worse, it listens to one neighbour and ignores...

China moves to turn Iran into a client-state; stakes up for India

Ashish Shukla - July 12, 2020

India would watch with concern a blood-pact in the making between China and Iran which could mean trouble both at home and abroad. China put...

Indian Muslims, next time you hold aloft anti-CAA banner, remember this for your own good

Ashish Shukla - July 7, 2020

I guess there is little avoiding the anti-CAA protests once Corona pandemic goes as unannounced as it came in 2020. A Shaheen Bagh here, a...

India counts its eggs while Corona hatches its killer plan: Who blinks first?

Ashish Shukla - March 31, 2020

(The figures in this piece were valid till early Monday). India mutated into 36 new Indias on Sunday. All the 29 states and 7 union...

No sooner ‘violent Muslims’ emerge than the ‘victim Muslim’ card is brought to play

Ashish Shukla - May 1, 2019

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India firm even as US act bully on Iran matter

Ashish Shukla - June 30, 2018

United States wants India to cut down its oil imports from Iran which stands as its third biggest supplier after Iraq and Saudi Arabia. President Donald...

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