Chintamani Mahapatra The message that India has been radiating is quite transparent. It would like to stay off Cold War politics. It would not abandon its strategic partnership with either Russia or the United States Many political leaders or top…
Some two years into the military standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi paid a short visit to India last week. The India leg of his trip was shrouded in secrecy even as other parts of the itinerary — Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nepal — were well publicised. In diplomacy, secret visits are sometimes intended to break long-standing logjams and demonstrate a commitment to the resolution of conflicts. But this was no such visit. It was primarily aimed at testing India’s resolve and assessing if changing global geopolitics made New Delhi more amenable to giving in to China, much like in the past.
Harsh V. Pant & Shashank Mattoo As Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida landed in Delhi, the stakes were high. While both sides were meeting to continue the tradition of annual bilateral summits, neither party could ignore the broader shifts in…
Anil Trigunayat The Russia-Ukraine war has caused immense human suffering and a crisis of confidence in the current selective rule-based international order and its limits. Whatever the impact, the crippling and sweeping western sanctions may have eventually given salience to the desired…
The challenge for trade unions is how to confront the giant and hard State. That is a greater challenge than organizing annual rituals.
Mohan Chandra Pargaien Tree planting or forest restoration has now become one of the important routes to achieve net-zero targets by 2070 as committed by India at the climate conference COP26 conducted last year in Glasgow. There is no doubt that businesses,…