(There are) many stories which are not on paper, they are written in the bodies and minds of women.                       Amrita Pritam his, “will you cook for me forever!” that had seemed the most romantic question then, was my undoingas I happily immersed myself in pots and pans,tied to the invisible post of domesticity; I lost my […]

My story

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  Germany Can Only Field Five BattalionsMarch 21, 2026
  Germany has, on paper, an army of three divisions. In practice, according to a research fellow at the Council on Geostrategy, even with three months’ warning Germany would struggle to field beyond five battalions outside its own borders. Five battalions. Against an adversary that has been on a war footing for four years, that deploys 8,000 kamikaze drones per day in Ukraine, and that has …
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  Only 16% of European Citizens Still Consider the United States An AllyMarch 21, 2026
  In November 2025, the European Council on Foreign Relations surveyed Europeans about their view of the United States. Only 16 percent still considered the United States an ally. That’s down from 22 percent eight months earlier. Twenty percent now consider the United States a rival or adversary. In Germany, France, and Spain, that number approaches 30 percent. NATO was built on the premise that Europe …
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  Nuclear Bomb DominoMarch 21, 2026
  Iran’s nuclear facilities were bombed. The IAEA says the sites weren’t destroyed. Iran still holds 440 kilograms of highly enriched uranium. The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk says Iran’s capacity was “marginally degraded” but the incentives to go nuclear have “gone through the roof.” Iran goes nuclear. Saudi Arabia, which signed a mutual defence agreement with nuclear-armed Pakistan in September 2025 and …
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  The Nuclear Treaty Expired QuietlyMarch 21, 2026
  New START was the last nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia. It limited both countries to 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads each. It required inspections. It required verification. Basically, it was the single remaining guardrail on a combined arsenal capable of ending human civilization several times over. It expired on February 4, 2026. There was no replacement or any negotiations. There was …