Harsh V Pant China sees itself as a power that has risen to become a peer of the US and wants its place under the sun, in the process unmasking its aggressive intent. The US is trying to push to…
Amita Singh A question that has perplexed public and political life since ancient times is about the role of religion in governance. Indian Constitution had been far ahead of many decolonized nascent peer republics post-World War II in firmly instituting…
Sunil Ray India has witnessed a deeply embedded spirit of freedom among its citizens. The first two wars of Independence were fought against external colonialism. Now it is being reinvented as what I call the ‘solidarity movement’. It has made…
Anil Trigunayat Geopolitics is the art of the possible as they say there are no permanent friends or enemies but only interests. But in today’s fast-changing global and regional dynamic especially in the volatile West Asia, which is reeling under…
Anil Trigunayat For over a decade now Syria has suffered insidious external interventions, civil war, bombings, and repeated attempts to undermine its sovereignty. The Levantine nation has been targeted with the influx of ISIS (Daesh), and by a blatant regime…
Srikanth Kondapalli Since July 2017, China has been aiming to set up 628 ‘well-off’ society villages all across Tibet border areas. The recent controversy about China building a “well-off society village” at Longju in Arunachal Pradesh has all the elements of opening…