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India-Russia Historic Connection : RIAC-Embassy of India Conference on Indo-Russian Relations, Moscow
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

  1. I would like to thank RIAC and the embassy of India for inviting me to this session on India-Russia cultural and historical connect. The discussion is timely. Both India and Russia are ‘branding’ themselves as civilizational stat....

    April 01, 2025 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , Bollywood , Ganga Volga dialogue , India Russia Historic connections , Nicholas Roerich , Vedantic Society
The Kashmir Files: Much Ado about Honesty
Rajesh Singh Article

The furore over Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s condemnation of The Kashmir Files may have died down, but it does recall to memory the case of yet another controversial film, Kissa Kursi Ka. Of course, there is hardly any comparison b....

December 26, 2022 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Supreme Court , Bollywood , Kashmir Files , Kissa Kursi Ka , Lapid
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam Revisited: Exploring India’s Soft Power Assets

In January 2019, Vivekananda International Foundation organized the seminar Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Relevance of India’s Ancient Thinking to Contemporary Strategic Reality to mobilize the Indian repository of ideas—ancient and modern—and ....

March 27, 2020 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Seminars , Soft Power , Bollywood , Yoga , Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam , India’s Soft Power Assets , Ayurveda
From Buddhism to Bollywood - The Investment in Soft Power
Uma Sudhindra

As a gross generalisation, three factors shape the foreign policy of most countries: history, geography and capability. And each of these has decisively influenced Indian foreign policy, in different ways at different times. India’s power of attrac....

December 08, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy , Buddhism , Soft Power , Bollywood
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