Military diplomacy, or defence diplomacy, may sound like an oxymoron to many, but it must be part of the comprehensive power strategy of any country that wishes to be a regional or a global player.
Not only a favourite for health tourism with its traditional ayurvedic and modern medicine excellence but India has also become a vaccine hub and pharmacy of the world and now the health-tech could provide that avenue for further enhancing its heft in this truly vital sector for the broader global good.
Anil Trigunayat Immigration has always been an issue in the US domestic politics which has had external ramifications. Ironically USA is a land of immigrants who dreamt big and made it big and created an exceptional landscape by contributing to the…
Some dates go down in history as unprecedented and unanticipated developments usher in often unexpected and unannounced outcomes. Moreover, wars and their impacts are not unconnected or limited to a particular geography.
Hopefully, the embattled and thoroughly aggrieved Syrians, 13 million of whom have been displaced and refuges for over a decade, will find succour in New Syria and they will not go the Libyan, Yemen or the Iraqi way, observes former diplomat Anil Trigunayat.
West Asia is never quiet. As if the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon are not enough, let alone the simmering ones in Libya, Yemen, and Sudan, the past week’s conflagration in Syria has yet again proved that the causes of conflict must also be definitively addressed, especially when a highly complex situation is allowed to take deeper, divisive roots with external powers having their own axe to grind every step of the way.