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  A CITIZEN’S RECKONING What I Got Right. What I Missed. What Is Now Undeniable. A Reflection on Eighteen Months of Geopolitical Correspondence October 2024 – February 2026 February 28, 2026 | opensaurabh.blogspot.com Between October 2024 and March 2025, I wrote a series of personal emails to my circle of friends and colleagues — a running diary of a citizen attempting to read, through open sources and philosophical training, the shape of the Great Game unfolding around India. I had no institutional backing, no classified access, no journalistic machinery. I had only the disposition to read events as a connected whole rather than a sequence of isolated incidents, and the willingness to name what I saw before the outcomes made it safe to do so. On February 28, 2026 — the day the United States and Israel launched Operation Shield of Judah against Iran, fulfilling a trajectory I had traced in those early letters — it is time to reckon honestly with that record. A citizen who claims th...

  Avidya अविद्या On the Forgetting of Justice — A Citizen's Inquiry A follow-up to 'When the Court Closes Its Doors' February 2026 | opensaurabh.blogspot.com "Procedure triumphing the cause of justice."— Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, in his concurring judgment on Arvind Kejriwal's CBI arrest, describing what his colleague on the same bench had done. Before We Begin: A Word on Avidya In the Vedantic tradition, avidya does not mean ignorance in the ordinary sense — the absence of knowledge. It means something far more specific and far more dangerous: the forgetting of one's essential nature. The veil that descends not over what we know, but over what we are. A judge who has forgotten the purpose of justice has not lost legal knowledge. He knows the rules. He applies them correctly. He speaks in the precise language of procedure and precedent. What he has lost — what the veil has descended over — is the memory of what the rules are for. Who they were written to prote...