Jayanta Roy Chowdhury

2 months ago | freepressjournal.in | Jayanta Roy Chowdhury

We all know that America has ‘a new sheriff in town,’ and in the unipolar world that we still live in, whether we like it or not, the ‘sheriff’ or the newly elected president of the USA, Donald Trump, gets to have the whole world as his backyard to police. However, for a sheriff to succeed in enforcing the law in his jurisdiction, there is a need for deputies. In the early days of the Cold War, America tried to resolve that problem by setting up security alliances – NATO, CENTO and SEATO.

2 months ago | freepressjournal.in | Jayanta Roy Chowdhury

If India ever needed to spend more money on building up naval assets and military firepower, it is perhaps now, when the world order is fragmenting and the geopolitical churn in the Indian Ocean area has heated up to a feverish pitch. The unipolar world we had grown used to after the fall of the Soviet Union started receiving a notice from a rising China around the time of the Wall Street crisis in 2008.

Jan 19, 2025 | freepressjournal.in | Jayanta Roy Chowdhury

Sometime after the clock strikes midnight in India, Donald Trump will be sworn in as President of the United States of America. His address, to be made on Monday afternoon (Washington time), as he assumes the most powerful position in the world, is expected to focus on “unity in strength,” which will emphasize not the global order’s unity but rather America’s political and economic unity.

Jan 4, 2025 | freepressjournal.in | Jayanta Roy Chowdhury

A New Year’s Eve drone attack killed seven civilians and injured four at a Hindu temple near Myanmar’s Bago Region’s Phyu Town, according to Arakan Army sources. Other sources confirmed that the Myanmar Army launched airstrikes and the drone attack in at least five places in Myanmar on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, killing at least 20 people, including the temple attack in Bago, which borders the Rakhine region, now over-run by the rebel Arakan army.

Dec 23, 2024 | freepressjournal.in | Jayanta Roy Chowdhury

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi, granddaughter of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, has stirred political and diplomatic debates with her choice of accessories. It began with a Palestinian-themed bag and has now extended to Bangladesh-themed bags carried by Congress members. When Priyanka carried a Palestinian bag to Parliament, it appeared to signal solidarity with Gaza’s bombed civilians.