Articles By VBN Ram
Constitutional Crisis in Nepal
By: VBN Ram | Date: 27 Dec , 2020
Whenever a nation is gripped in political turmoil primarily because of inter-party, or, intra-party feuds, the Constitution of that nation becomes the sole determinant of the legal validity of...
Checking Cross LoC Infiltration by Pakistan
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2020
One of the easiest ways by which an adversary/ enemy can access those areas which necessarily have to be protected from the former is through an underground passageway facilitated through a...
US Arms Sales to Taiwan and China’s International Isolation
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2020
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is lamenting that post Covid 19, it has become the world’s punching bag. The recent denouncement of China’s Communist Party in a media interview on the...
Reasons for the QUAD failing to punch above its weight?
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Oct , 2020
In theory a military combine of the US, Japan, Australia and India, the four members of the QUAD, is unassailable. If these formidable four, can foster an irretrievable resolve to take on a...
Sri Lanka’s Parliamentary election results: Implications for India
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Aug , 2020
The parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka have just concluded. The massive landslide in favour of Sri Lanka People & Freedom Alliance ( SLPFA), of which the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna- is a...
India-Australia-Quad Strategic Dynamics
By: VBN Ram | Date: 18 Jul , 2020
As regards Australia’s participation in the ensuing Malabar Exercises (ME) there is a misleading impression that Canberra was thus far reluctant to participate in these because India was under...
The ‘No Holds Barred’ US-Iran Confrontation is Multi-Dimensional
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jan , 2020
The extra-judicial, political killing on Jan 3, 2020 of Iran’s IRGC Quds Force military commander and strategist Gen. Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike which targeted a convoy of vehicles...
HKDC Elections: Sound a death knell to China
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Nov , 2019
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protest currently in its sixth month is unprecedented for more reasons than one. Firstly, no other protest anywhere in the world has continued unabated for such a long...
Should Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s installation as Sri Lanka’s President worry...
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Nov , 2019
Even though the recent election of Gotabaya Rajapaksha as the president of Sri Lanka has brought Indian anxieties to the fore (because of his pro-China leanings –and the leverage China has over...
Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Protests also influence China’s Neighbours,...
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jun , 2019
Protests in 2003 Hong Kong citizens were quite agitated that mainland China ( PRC ) was in the process of bringing out the National Security Act, which was meant as an enablement legislation to...
US sanctions on Iran can hamper World Peace
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May , 2019
The reasons offered by President Donald Trump for his abrupt withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) i.e. the Iran nuclear deal on May 8, 2018- were many, such as, • Its...
Masood Azhar’s Blacklisting and its Implications
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May , 2019
Had the philosopher cum literary doyen Rabindra Nath Tagore been alive today, he would have caveated his adage ekla chalo re (go it alone) by whispering to Xi-Jinping, “only if, the cause you...
Challenges before Imran Khan
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2018
The results declared by Pakistan’s Election Commission –place Imran Khan’s PTI as having secured 116 seats-out of the needed 137. As is planned by his party, the deficit will be cobbled up...
North Korea’s irrationality is instigated by Beijing
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Sep , 2017
North Korea’s brazen defiance of sanctions, yet again seen on Sept 3, 2017 – when it detonated its sixth nuclear device (claimed by it to be a thermo-nuclear weapon has tremendous devastating...
None in Pakistan can boast of Pristine Purity
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Aug , 2017
Even though the rabble rouse emanating from ousted Prime-Minister Nawaz Sharif’s road rally, has thus far been not as enthusiastic as anticipated , it would be foolhardy for political rivals to...
Leveraged Transactional Diplomacy (LTD) can resolve the Doklam Stand off
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jul , 2017
There is no gainsaying, that in modern warfare, a military confrontation between two militarily unequal nations, does not always result in the defeat of the weaker nation, though, in all...
Will the Court Verdict unseat Nawaz Sharif?
By: VBN Ram | Date: 07 May , 2017
Eventually, if the turn of events don’t favour Nawaz Sharif, the three time prime-minister, a judicial verdict can remove him from office. Nevertheless, his political outfit PML (N) will never...
Civilian Rule is Repugnant to Pakistan
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Feb , 2017
Former Pakistan President and Army Chief Gen Parvez Musharraf has made no bones of the fact the country is unsuited to civilian rule. It is no irony, therefore, that by imposing the emergency in...
Masood Azhar: An Albatross around India’s Neck
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jan , 2017
On every occasion the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is unable to sanction Maulana Masood Azhar under the UNSC Resolution 1267 – the ISI in Pakistan, its clergy and the Pakistani Taliban...
Technology for Border Protection
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Dec , 2016
The devastatingly stunning impact in the immediate aftermath of the Nagrota terrorist attack evoked awe and shock- besides rushing the intelligence agencies to undertake an in-depth probe as to...