Is India making smart moves with Sri Lanka?
If there is one country where everything has gone wrong, it is India’s neighbor, Sri Lanka. Since the country gained independence from Britain in 1948, it has not seen the turmoil that it is...
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China’s Scramble for Africa
Introduction Economic relations between China and Africa date back to the 7th Century. China seeks resources from Africa for its growing consumption domestically while African Countries get funds from China to build infrastructure. China...
The ascendancy of India at the global stage
Over the last 25 years, India’s explosive economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world’s emerging major powers. Long plagued by endemic poverty, until the 1990s the Indian economy was also...
[Book Review] America’s Two Cold Wars: From Hegemony to Decline?
This book, written by former Venezuelan Ambassador, scholar and prolific author Alfredo Toro Hardy, compares America’s forty-plus years’ of Cold War with the Soviet Union with its emerging one with China. Two basic questions...
India’s Role in Rebuilding Afghanistan After Taliban
From the time immemorial till present, India maintained a cordial relation and good understanding with Afghanistan in the interest of the region as well as the country itself, except, when it was under the...
China-Algeria Relations: win-win development, or neo-colonialism?
Algeria’s colonial past and its dependence on Europe Algeria had been a French colony for 70 years, France occupied Algeria on July 5, 1830. The colonial rule continued till 1962. The 132 years of...
Changing Patterns of India-China Trade Relations
Introduction The history of bilateral trade between India and China traces its origins to the ancient Silk Route. The Silk Route is an ancient network of trade routes existing between South Western China and...
21st Century Skills : Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
Intelligence is often defined as our intellectual potential; something we are born with, something that can be measured, and a capacity that is difficult to change. In recent years, however, other views of intelligence...
China’s growing Geo-Economic Aspirations in South Asia
China’s growth in the world marked a stunning shift from Western-dominated geopolitics to Asian-dominated geopolitics. The Chinese claim that the Asian continent has been resolved into artificial topographies. A new world order based on...
India sets end-June coal import targets as power woes mount
India has asked state and private sector utilities to ensure delivery of 19 million tonnes of coal from overseas by end-June, according to a power ministry letter, reflecting an urgency to secure supplies in...
