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Kathmandu Chronicle: Reclaiming India-Nepal Relations Author: K.V. Rajan & Atul K. Thakur Vintage (An imprint of Penguin Random House India) Rs. 499/-
Rajesh Singh

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...

May 1, 2024
Governance and Political Studies
Tags: India Nepal Relations, Kathmandu Chronicle, Maoist insurgency
Modian Consensus: The Rediscovery of Bharat by Dr. Swadesh Singh, Publication BluOne Ink,2024 Language: English, First Edition; 304pp, ISBN;978-93-92209-78-9
Manish Kumar Tiwary

Swadesh Singh's compelling work, “Modian Consensus: The Rediscovery of Bharat,” offers a riveting deep dive into the ideological transformation shaping India's political landscape, especially under the dynamic stewardship of Prime Minister Narendra...

April 3, 2024
Governance and Political Studies
Tags: governance, Modian Consensus, Narendra Modi, Political ethos, Politics
Bharat Rising: Dharma, Democracy, Diplomacy; Author: Utpal Kumar; BleuOneInk; Rs. 599/-
Rajesh Singh

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...

March 27, 2024
Governance and Political Studies
Tags: Bharat, democracy, dharma, Diplomacy
Ramayan Men Samrik Sanskriti: Antarrashtriy Sambandhon Kaa Indic Siddhant by Dr. Anoop Kumar Gupta; Publication: Manak Publication, INC Pvt. Ltd., Delhi; Language: Hindi, First Edition 2023; ISBN: 978-93-91897-25-3
Prof Hari Bansh Jha

Several studies have been conducted on different dimensions of strategic issues in different parts of the world. Even many studies have been carried out on various dimensions of the Hindu epic Ramayana, which is believed to have been written first...

March 4, 2024
Historical and Civilisational Studies
Tags: Culture, Ramayan, Samrik Sanskriti
Book Review: Information, Cyber and Space Domain and Its Application in Future Land Warfare, Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM, KW Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (2023), ISBN: 978-93-91490-56-0
Colonel Rajiv Kumar Srivastava

PK Mallick, an Indian Army General, scholar warrior par excellence with his more than two decades of handling specialised domain of Information and Cyber Warfare, has mapped rapid evolution of Information, Cyber and Space aspects of land warfare....

July 6, 2023
National Security and Strategic Studies, Cyber Security
Tags: Cyber, Land Warfare, Space Domain
Human Rights and the Uses of History: Expanded Second Edition | Author-Samuel Moyn, Verso; Reprint edition, 2017, 208 pp, London: ISBN-13:978-1781689004, Price-₹ 940 (paperback)
Rohith Krishna

When the history of human rights is written, there is a general tendency in scholarship to teleologically derive the concept from antiquity to the enlightenment period and its matured form today (for instance, Lynn Hunt, 2007). In such a framework...

July 4, 2023
Historical and Civilisational Studies
Tags: Cold War, Human Rights, Indian culture, Last Utopia
Book Review: ‘A Life Well Spent: Four Decades in the Indian Foreign Service’; Amb. Satish Chandra, Roopa Publications, 2023, ISBN: 9357020950, pp. 284, Rs 636
Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The book by Ambassador Satish Chandra covers four decades he served in the Indian Foreign Service from 1965 to 2005. The book is not simply an account of his personal journey. It provides a glimpse into the making of foreign policy. It also covers...

May 19, 2023
National Security and Strategic Studies, Jammu & Kashmir, International Relations and Diplomacy
Tags: 1971, Awami League, foreign policy, Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan, UNCHR
China in the Cyber Domain, Major General PK Mallick, VSM, Prints Publications Pvt Ltd. 2022. ISBN:978-93-936740-4-3
Colonel Rajiv Kumar Srivastava

Millions of smartphones or computers and their hardware all over the world with made-in-China tags provide a sense that the Dragon country is perhaps one of the most advanced IT-enabled countries. PLA soldiers are safe behind their high-tech Digital...

January 19, 2023
China, International Relations and Diplomacy
Tags: Chinese Cyber, Covid, cyber domain, cyber firewall, PLA
Susan L. Shirk. Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. $29.95.
Gaurav Chauhan

Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise argues that China’s leadership is the one responsible for bringing backlash on themselves by overreaching. Shirk open ups the black box of Chinese politics to investigate China’s behaviour both at home...

January 5, 2023

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Destined for war: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? By Graham Allison. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. 2017. 384pp. ISBN 978-0-544-93527-3
Kartikeya Pandey

“Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world.” said Napoleon more than two hundred years ago and quoted by the author in the very first chapter of the book which talked about the rise of China. The author contends that the growth of...

December 19, 2022
China, US, International Relations and Diplomacy
Tags: Industrial Revolution, Napoleon, Russia, United States, US-Japan
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