REFLECTIONS 2022 & NEW YEAR GREETINGS 2023 “ In the natural order of things the need of the Lion cannot be equated with the wants of an Antelope, and the right to life of the weak is enmeshed into the right of the strong to survive. Today’s comity of nations too reflects this law of the jungle where the strong rightfully prey on the weak, but behind the façade of a just world order! ” – Col RS Sidhu Dear Readers, The open belligerence by China against India, Taiwan, Japan and host of its maritime neighbours, Russian ‘ special military operation ’ in Ukraine, and factional hostilities in whole of West Asia, mirror the ‘ Law of the Jungle ’ even while highlighting the multitude of probabilities for engulfing the world in a global conflagration. But the jungle, where the female partner the male as an equal in the hunt for the prey, compares favourably to the ‘ human civil society ’ in its treatment of the female, when viewed against the brutal crackdown on ‘ Burqa