"While Myanmar’s international marginalisation has pushed the SAC towards China, the Beijing-Tatmadaw partnership is one of compulsion [more] than comfort." @9dashline.com #Myanmar www.9dashline.com/article/chin...

A few thoughts on the Kashmir terrorist attack: The final death toll is unknown, but this is the worst attack since Pulwama in 2019. It is possible it was timed to maximise embarrassment to India, with Vance in New Delhi and Modi in Saudi Arabia. It is highly likely that India will respond... 1/x

For @9dashline.com, I argue that Beijing’s multi-stakeholder engagement with the junta, the EAOs, & the NLD reflects a deliberate effort to maintain influence regardless of Myanmar’s internal political outcomes. However, the agency of the domestic actors must not be underestimated.

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

'The resilience of the far-right and ethno-populism across the world reflects a near pan-universal rejection of the globalisation agenda. The West needs the labour and not necessarily the labourers' I write for @ndtvworld.bsky.social on Trump's deportation moves. www.ndtv.com/opinion/what...

Twitter/X has been basically reduced to Musk's Mann ki baat.

Ten men Manchester United beat a twelve men Arsenal! On to the next round! GGMU! 🔴⚪⚫

#Manchester United Football Club plays so we remember that there's always a new rock bottom.

Manmohan Singh uncaged the Indian Tiger -- I write in Foreign Policy. foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/26/i...

Jack Grealish hasn't scored for City in over a year but the internet makes you feel that Rashford is the worst player in Manchester. Yes, he hasn't been great the past 1.5 seasons. But he has had multiple 20+ G/A seasons. Surely there's a player that the club can do with.

Historians long ago identified the pattern of "working towards the Führer" (not equating Trump and Hitler). Underlings get creative in targeting supposed enemies. Then they invent new enemies. All to please the person at the top (who might not even care or, for that matter, know the new enemies).

What the Yoon?!

The November edition of @9dashline.com's monthly newsletter, The Navigator, is here. Please check it out and do subscribe! ✨ open.substack.com/pub/9dashlin...

The United States is actively participating in genocide.

📣 The latest edition of #India Watch Briefing is out! Subscribe to receive updates on Indian foreign policy, with insights into its relations with the EU and China 👇 indiawatchbriefing.substack.com/p/india-watc...

The TV media will avoid conversations about the continuing violence in #Manipur because it represents the two key things. 1. The absolute state failure in ensuring ethnic harmony and easing tensions at an early stage. Does India even have a Home Minister?

Govt's response is to just lockdown the city as much as possible. This is not governance and this cannot be an annual policy.

If you spend any considerable time outside, you will start feeling irritation in your eyes and throat. The city is choking. Again.

Not a very blue sky in Delhi NCR.

IDF's *invasion* of Lebanon

Zionism is a racist colonial ideology addicted to violence.

What do you call BlueSky users? Skywalkers?

Who gives a shit

Guns and Hoaxes

9dashline has put together a forum to discuss the impact of Trump 2.0 on the politics and partners in the Indo-Pacific. Give it a read 👇🏽 www.9dashline.com/article/in-f...

"The developments in this report lead the Special Committee to conclude that the policies and practices of Israel during the reporting period are consistent with the characteristics of genocide" - from the UN Special Committee that, ignored by our media documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge...

The state has been burning since May 2023. It is ruled by Modi’s party. No one has been held accountable. Modi and his ministers don’t care but sadly, it seems that neither do a bulk of Indians.

Hello everyone! Since Bluesky and its starter packs are kicking off I have curated one to bring together scholars working on Indian Foreign Policy. Feel free to suggest other potential members or even yourself! ✨ go.bsky.app/GJaoYpk

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

Another victim of #Hindutva hate — Prof Saibaba was jailed for a decade as a political prisoner under the #Modi regime. He was routinely denied medical care. Owing to later complications, he died at the age of 57. We should all be saddened and enraged. indianexpress.com/article/citi...

Earlier this week, I wrote for @thehindu.com on India's shifting position on the Palestinian cause over the decades. This is a shorter version of an article scheduled to be published later this year.

Yesterday, despite the unrelenting heat, people turned up in numbers and with energy to extend solidarity with the Palestinians. Arrest Netanyahu, immediately stop the genocide in Gaza. India's streets shall always support Palestine's independence. #AlleyesonRafah 🍉

🇮🇱 is openly violating ICJ's provisional measures. 🇮🇱 is ignoring the ICC warrants. 🇮🇱 is in the process of classifying UNRWA as a terrorist org. 🇮🇱 has now attacked Rafah. Dead Palestinian babies don't move Biden like the fake Israeli kids did. ISRAEL IS A TERROR STATE. #AllEyesOnRafah 🍉

Historian Ilan Pappe was detained in Detroit airport on Monday and asked if he was a Hamas supporter, whether he views Israeli action in Gaza as genocide, who his Arab and Muslim friends are in America, and what his solution is to the “conflict.” He is 70.

The JNU community proved again its internationalism & moral conscience. The students extended support to the protestors across the world & pushed the admin to cancel the event of the US ambassador. My article on the US's role in the ongoing genocide couldn't have come out at a better point. 🍉

Yes this. In 2021, some US Hindu groups filed a Title VI complaint against UPenn charging that Hindu students were unsafe on campus. Why? Bcuz Penn was 1 of several sponsors of an online academic conference called Dismantling Global Hindutva that sought to discuss the threat of Hindu nationalism./1

January 22 will be a historic day in the history of Modern India for all the wrong reasons. This is not the day when the decline started. But it will go down as the day this country crowned the idea of a Hindu Rashtra. Any facade of a secular state is dead. What a circus.

'With the 🇺🇲 & its allies stretched handling multiple crises overseas along with complicated internal politics & factionalism, the door may be left ajar for 🇨🇳 to extend its influence, fill the geopolitical vacuum, & solidify its status as a regional hegemon.' www.thequint.com/opinion/chin...

We keep comparing brutal leaders to Hitler when Kissinger was exponentially more brutal and bloodthirsty.

🚨HERE WE GO🚨 (Nearly 3 months late) I have joined the amazing team at 9DashLine as an Associate Editor. Please follow our submission guidelines and send in your articles or pitches to: [email protected] [email protected] www.9dashline.com/submissions

On the world’s largest authoritarian state—India. How it’s destroying lives and controlling media

A new publication is out 🎉 Amongst all the amazing chapters, I hope you enjoy reading my modest contribution on Modi's populist discourse when engaging with Indian Americans. Looking forward to critical feedback and developing this work further. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Dear United States, Funding the occupier, Israel, is 'not the right thing to do' either.

How are people still calling it Israel's 'right' to defend itself?? The US, UK, and the rest of the Liberal International Order lot are funding war crimes. They too have blood on their hands.

If you can look at the sky without worrying about missiles If you can breathe fresh air without the smell of burning flesh If you can taste water without drinking the refuse of death If you can hold a child in your arms without crying in grief You are Blessed Fight for Those with so much Less

Women Experts- Indian Foreign Policy : Making life easy for all 'manel' makers. Here is a growing list of women experts working on Indian foreign policy:) P.S: Please feel free to contact us for further additions ! Details 👇🏽 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

In my latest for 9DL, Shivani and I, discuss the politics and science behind the controversial Fukushima water discharge. www.9dashline.com/article/fuku...

Hi Bluesky People! Trying this app in case of the inevitable demise of Twitter/X. People working on IR, Indo-Pacific, Myanmar, & Populism please connect! Also, shout out to constantly heartbroken United fans, GGMU! 🔴⚪⚫ 🫰🏽🫰🏽