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Srikanth Kondapalli Despite serious reservations expressed by both Sri Lanka and India, and after a clearance delay of five days, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Strategic Support Force vessel Yuan Wang 5 finally docked at the Chinese-leased Hambantota port on 16 August 2022. Of course, the Sri…
Harsh V. Pant The episode is a stark reminder for New Delhi and for the world of how China’s grip on the Indian Ocean is getting consolidated. When the Chinese research ship, the Yuan Wang 5, docked in Sri Lanka’s Hambantota…
TK Arun Six months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the West’s sanctions on Russia, curbing its export of oil, gas, food, and fertilizer, the world is a more miserable place, with higher prices, lower growth, diminished ability to combat…
Vithita Jha Abstract The recent controversial visit of the Chinese Vessel Yuan Wang 5 to Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka manifests a new future for transforming diplomatic ties between India and Sri Lanka. The latter’s inclination toward China has called…
TK Arun Bilkis Bano’s rapists were greeted as heroes and garlanded because that act advances an ongoing war, in which women are raped to demonstrate the rapists’ dominance over the victim’s community. We have seen any number of columns expressing…
Chandrachur Singh In the landscape of India’s federal politics, the state of Bihar is an outlier of sorts. One of the most politically conscious states, Bihar is also the least developed on the parameters of the human development index. The…
A. Amarender Reddy Overall, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana needs to factor in the diversity of the states. Over the past few years, the PMFBY has improved in many respects, depending on past experience and requests from states such as…