Eternal Dharma, Evolving War: Rediscovering Ancient Indian Wisdom for Modern Battlefront
War—its chaos, its destruction, and its moral paradoxes—has shadowed humanity since time immemorial. Yet, beneath the violence lies a...
Oct 6, 20254 min read
Tariffs That Bind: How Trump's 2025 Trade War Is Cementing an Unbreakable Global South
For decades geopolitics was framed through simplistic binaries: East versus West, Global North versus Global South, established powers against emerging challengers. But as of 2025, these lines blur, revealing a far more complex and compelling drama unfolding. While Washington celebrates its latest tariff victories and Brussels debates sanction packages, a seismic shift is occurring beneath the surface of geopolitics. The very weapons designed to fragment the Global South are
Sep 11, 20257 min read
'Clean' is the Wrong Question: Rethinking the Energy Transition
The problem with the energy transition is not that it is insufficiently clean. It is that clean is the wrong question to begin with. 'Clean' suggests the absence of pollution, of harm, of consequence. It sounds reassuring. It implies that with the right technology, right policy, or even right targets, complexities can be engineered away. But energy systems have never worked that way. Every transition rearranges harm rather than eliminating it. What changes is not whether cost
Feb 273 min read
The Green Illusion: When Clean Futures Depend on Dirty Trade-Offs
The future is marketed as clean- electric vehicles glide silently through the cities, wind turbines turn against open skies, and solar panels promise abundance without smoke, soot or sacrifice. In political speeches and corporate reports alike, the energy transition is framed as an ethical upgrade- a departure from the extractive excess of the past. But the story does not end where the marketing begins. Beneath these clean images lies a less visible geography: mines, processi
Feb 203 min read
Rare Earths are not rare- Control over the future is
Historically, power announced itself openly. Empires expanded through conquests, navies projected dominance across seas, and borders shifted through visible force. Geopolitics was something you could point to on a map. However, today, power works differently. It hums quietly- inside motors, magnets and microchips. If geopolitics once lived on borders and battlefields, it now lives underground. That shift explains why a group of obscure metals known as rare earth elements has
Feb 103 min read
Welcome to Primarily Speaking
Everything is personal, even politics The world isn’t black and white—but politics is too often reduced to that. We are always placed at...
Apr 13, 20251 min read
