1. Manic “Change Round” In Sigmund Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia,” the melancholic is in want of an object, never knowing exactly what they may have lost. Melancholy transforms the object-loss of mourning into
In modern warfare, the battle for territory is often accompanied by a battle for truth. Military operations are no longer judged solely by events on the ground but also by the competing
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The history of the Sri Lanka Navy, which completed 75 years in 2025, is both eventful and fascinating. The Navy Act was passed by our first Parliament on 9 December 1950. This
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After getting stuck in the fog of war in the Middle East with Iran, the US is again playing a brinkmanship card in the region that will only fan the flames. Recently,
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Jantar Mantar in New Delhi is no longer merely an 18th-century astronomical observatory, built by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II in 1724 to track the stars using massive stone instruments. For more
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On July 24, 2026, at least 15 terrorists, 12 Army personnel, two Policemen, a former Forest Department official, were killed during a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) attack on a joint Security Forces (SFs)
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History has a way of circling back to truth. However long injustice may reign, however loudly the liars may shout, the story of Bangladesh today stands poised on that eternal hinge where
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There are moments in history when a system appears so complete that it becomes difficult to imagine its end. When Britannia ‘ruled the waves’, it was thought in large parts of the
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The belief that unseen elites secretly govern the United States has become one of the most enduring themes in American political life. While the recent controversy surrounding the Epstein files has once
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“The hibernating monster, ‘El Niño’, rose from the depths of the ocean to swallow the rain drops and scorch the land and its creatures. The silence in the ocean roars louder across
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The latest NATO summit underscored a strategic reality that the Alliance can no longer afford to ignore: European security cannot continue to rest disproportionately on American military power. For decades, successive U.S.
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