Timeline Of The Catalonia Crisis
The year closes on a grim note for the Spanish government beset by insurrection. Catalan protestors took to streets on Saturday, 18th of December, in protest against a legal mandate hiking Spanish medium education...
Category: Opinion
The last days
The year 2021 is in its last days, as the world moves away from 2021 and begin to absorb the realities of tomorrow, there is a need to take a pause and look back...
Come True: Soldier’s Wishes – Operations by 4 Sikh (Saragarhi) in Indo-Pak war 1971
Advance into Enemy Territory: Skirmishes at Boyra Millions of refugees from erstwhile East Bengal (Bangladesh) had poured into India as a result of gruesome genocide and atrocities committed by the Pakistan Army. It caused...
India and the one China policy
We do not expect other countries, including China, to comment on the matters which are internal to India, just as India refrains from commenting on internal issues of other countries”. This statement by Indian...
Fluctuation in Import substitution
In the ‘50s in order to support their home country made products and to promote industrialization and economic growth, it was believed by many economists that policies to restrict imports; import substitution is the...
Is US leadership really in decline this time?
Michael Pembroke offers a scathing criticism of America’s postwar foreign policy, in his new book, “America in Retreat: the decline of US leadership – from WW2 to Covid-19”. Pembrook sees inevitability in China’s rise...
Sino-Bangladesh engagement and emerging challenges for Indian foreign policy
Introduction India’s territory, human resources and economy are comparatively larger than other South Asian countries. As a result, India has traditionally ‘influenced’ the region. India was one of the first countries to have formal diplomatic...
Putin’s Visit to Delhi and the China angle
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited India for the 21st India-Russia Annual Summit and it also marked the inaugural session of the first 2+2 Dialogue to strengthen the bilateral mechanism between the Foreign and Defence...
Misnomer of military ‘masculinity’: A case study of Nanjing massacre
In conservative, patriarchal societies, a binary of ‘effeminacy’ and strident masculinity often imprints itself upon the State and its (potential) subjects, highlighting the violent psycho-sexual archetypes underlying most forms of war and conflict. This...
Omicron is a product of inequality, disparities and a “US versus Them” notion propagated by Developed Nations.
The second wave of Covid-19 is something that has left a void in all of us. The images of never-ending fire on pyres to lines in hospitals and pharmacies to cries of anguish all...
