The slow patient work of watching empires rearrange themselves.
From the opening accounting of the Iran missile war through the Dhurandhar trilogy and its epilogue, this is the working file of a correspondent who would rather be wrong about the particulars than impatient about the conclusions.
Forty-eight editions and counting. The reader will, as always, choose which of the theories to believe.
Recent editions
Moses at Mar-a-Lago
A satirical dispatch. Trump as Moses with a Post-it. Tehran tending an old fire. Pakistan presenting a service charge. India reading the Gita in another room. Beijing smiling into its tea.
Read the editionDhurandhar Epilogue — The Fourth File
Why Dhurandhar 3 may not have been the swansong. The pattern of unknown gunmen, the trilateral that the post-war architecture is masking, and what may, in due course, be coming.
Read the editionThe Sinking Feeling
May 4, 2026. The alert tone over Dubai. An Iranian drone strike on an ADNOC tanker off Fujairah. A ceasefire that lasted, in operational terms, exactly seventy-two hours.
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