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India Student Protests 2026

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India is facing student protests targeting the government in recent weeks. This articles is about dynamics of these protests and where they are headed. Spoiler alert - they aren't headed anywhere and won't change anything. But let's get into the details of these protests and what is actually triggering them. Some background first. India is a failed State. Its political system has failed, its constitution based on parliamentary Democracy has failed, and every institution/structure/policy that originates from India's political system is thus a failure. That means India's legal & justice system is a failure, India's economic system is a failure, India's developmental model is a failure, India's bureaucracy and entire institutional set up is a failure and so on. And obviously just like these failures, India's education system is also a failure. Now I won't go into lengthy explanation on why India is a failed State and why its political democracy ...
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Road to Iran conflict

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I’ve been busy recently with elaborating by thesis on Democracy (most recent article  here ). Now moving on to current affairs and other areas. Situation in middle east is on my mind since Israel, with enabling of US, started the Genocide in Gaza. See my previous articles here ( 1 ,  2 ,  3 ). I like to assert that situation in middle east is not something new and the wars ongoing there have been on drawing boards of Pentagon since more than two decades. The trajectory of wars (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon and finally Iran) was planned long ago although possibly not in particular sequence. After collapse of Soviet Union and US remaining the sole superpower standing, the hawks in America got confident that they can do pretty much whatever they want. The original plans for redrawing of middle east had several reasons. 1)  To take control of Oil reserves of Iran, Iraq & whatever rest in the middle east under US control. Other gulf States like Kuwait and ...
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