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Skewed Positions that the UN Takes In one of its recent meetings, the United Nations Security Council refused to buy Pakistan’s position on the Pahalgam terrorist attack which prompted India to launch Operation Sindoor. The meeting was attended by the five permanent members as well ...

Pakistan’s Nuclear Bluff and West’s Double Standards Operation Sindoor has been analysed by experts and many Indians are consequently more informed than before on our excellent defence capabilities, both in terms of manpower and machinery. Alongside, there has been a concerted and focussed diplomatic p...

India and the Shifting Sands of Geopolitics Geopolitics and geo-strategies are like shifting sands. They change according to developing circumstances and are also influenced by the quality and outlook of leaderships. They take into account the need to address old and emerging considerations of...

Sanskrit, an Intrinsic Part of Our Cultural History The Uttarakhand government recently announced an ambitious programme to vigorously promote Sanskrit in the state. It had taken the first step back in 2010, when Uttarakhand became the country’s first state to declare Sanskrit as its second official...

When the Supreme Court Failed the Spirit of the Constitution India recently observed the 75th anniversary of its Constitution Day. It was an occasion to celebrate the robustness of our Constitution which ensures a slew of fundamental rights to all citizens of the country. It was also an occasion to bear in mi...

Book Published / Book Reviews 
The Great Conciliator: Lal Bahadur Shastri and the Transformation of India; Author: Sanjeev Chopra; Bloomsbury India, Rs 899/- Understanding one of India’s Finest Prime Ministers There are few biographies, at least in the English language, that do justice to the tall stature of independent India’s second Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri. Historians and oth...

The Modi Disruption: India in Transition; Author: Arjun S. Kadian; Blue One Ink; ISBN 9365477352, 978-9365477351, Pg. 232, Rs. 499/- Narendra Modi first took oath as Prime Minister in 2014, riding on the strength of the many promises that he had made and vowed to fulfil. On taking charge, he gave several more assurances. If there is one word that would describe the essence of thos...

The Sherpa Trail: Stories from Darjeeling and Beyond, Authors: Nandini Purandare & Deepa Balsavar; Roli Books, Rs 695/ A Tribute to the Sherpas If you want to learn about the legendary courage of the Sherpa people, feel what they feel, understand their triumphs and disappointments and get a glimpse into what makes them tick, there is no better book—at l...

Kathmandu Chronicle: Reclaiming India-Nepal Relations Author: K.V. Rajan & Atul K. Thakur Vintage (An imprint of Penguin Random House India) Rs. 499/- Few inter-country relationships are as socially and culturally close as the India-Nepal one. But also, few such ties have been as blow-hot-blow-cold as this one. The situation is akin, if one may say, to that of a married couple who, having pledged t...

Bharat Rising: Dharma, Democracy, Diplomacy; Author: Utpal Kumar; BleuOneInk; Rs. 599/- When a colonised nation gets rid of its masters, one of its first acts is to reclaim its civilisational and cultural narrative, a legacy that had been pummelled and distorted beyond recognition and replaced by the coloniser’s worldview. For, what b...

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