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Lt Gen SRR Aiyengar, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd), Social Media – A Study of Social Media and Its Impact on Contemporary War/Conflicts, Uday Publishing House, 2019, PP. 152, ISBN: 978-93-85991-85-1, INR- 699/-
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)

Development of Social Media (SM) is a relatively new phenomenon. Between 2004 and 2014, all 22 of the world’s biggest Social Media (SM) networks were developed and launched. The Facebook was the first to be started on February 4, 2004. Rapid global...

December 19, 2019
Tags: Contemporary War, Cyber warfare, National Security policy, Role of Media, Social Media, Technological and Scientific Studies
Sreeram Chaulia, Trumped; Emerging power in a post-American world, 2019, Bloomsbury, New Delhi.
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF

Sreeram Chaulia’s thought-provoking book, Trumped; Emerging Powers in a Post-American World is likely to trigger a debate on the impact of the disruption in the global order brought out by Trump’s ‘America First’ policy. The author’s key argument...

December 17, 2019
Tags: 2019, America First policy, Post-American world, Sreeram Chaulia, Trump, US, International Relations and Diplomacy
The Making of Early Kashmir: Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini, by Shonaleeka Kaul, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 222 pp, Rs 750 INR, 2018
Swami Narasimhananda

Kashmir has been the crest of India’s geopolitical problems, quite literally, occupying the geographical head of the country. Majority of the problem is maintained so by producing a selective propagandist hegemony and discourse by vested interests....

October 15, 2019
Tags: ancient India, Historicising in India, Kashmir, Rajatarangini, Historical and Civilisational Studies
Basant K. Gupta, Timeless Wisdom from Ancient India, Laksmi di Asya Om, Italy, Second Edition, 2014, Italy. ISBN 978-88-96642-27-6, pp.235
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF

Attaining Peace, Harmony and Happiness, the Indian way Everyone wants to be prosperous, at peace and happy, and but few manage to attain these desirable goals. Why? How can one achieve peace and harmony while leading normal life? Vedas and...

October 1, 2019
Tags: ancient India, Bhakti Yoga, Harmony, Indian philosophy, Karma Yoga, Upanishads, Wisdom, Historical and Civilisational Studies
‘War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar – The Kachin Ceasefire, 1994-2011’, Edited by Mandy Sadan, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, Copenhagen, Pages 517, Price $ 22.15, ISBN: 978-87-7694-18-8(hbk), 2016
Jaideep Chanda

This book edited by Mandy Sadan, Reader of History of South East Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, focuses on the ‘inter-war period’ (to borrow a terminology associated with conventional war), in that...

August 2, 2019
Tags: Cultural Intimacies, South East Asia, Myanmar, Neighbourhood Studies
China’s Great Leap Forward-II, by Lt Gen Gautam Bannerjee, PVSM, AVSM, YSM (Retired), Lancer Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi, India, 152 pages, INR 595/-, 2019
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

The Great Leap Forward was a campaign run in the People’s Republic of China from 1958 to 1962. Chairman Mao Zedong led the campaign and the aim was to transform an agricultural economy to a socialist society through rapid industrialisation and...

May 31, 2019
Tags: BCIM, China’s Great Leap Forward, CMEC, CPEC, OBOR, PLA, Republic of China, China, International Relations and Diplomacy
Prof R Vaidyanathan, Caste as Social Capital, Westland Books, 2019, Chennai, PP. 131
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF

Prof Vaidyanathan’s book, Caste as Social Capital, challenges several myths relating to the working of the caste system in India. Noting that while caste is commonly identified with oppression and discrimination, he points out that it also has...

April 15, 2019
Tags: Bohras, Caste as Social Capital, Caste system, Kutchis, Marwaris, Patels, Politics, Sindhis, Social institution, Governance and Political Studies
Verma, C.B., Global Geo Strategic and Politico-Military Perspectives Through Millennia Past, English, Hardcover, 2 Volumes, 994 pages, Rs 3995/-, Pentagon Press, New Delhi, 2018
Sanjiv Nandan Prasad

For those baffled by the absurd magnitude of contemporary history – mammoth armies, perpetual wars, automated weapon systems, barbaric massacres, shocking terrorist attacks or weapons of mass destruction – history is perhaps the only refuge. For in...

January 29, 2019
Tags: Civilizations, Global Geo Strategic, Politico-Military Perspectives, International Relations and Diplomacy
‘China’s Asian Dream’, by Tom Miller, London: Zed Books, 2017, Pages: 256, Price: USD 20.29, ISBN 978-1-78360-923-9
Dr Teshu Singh

The One Belt One Road Initiative or the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of the most widely discussed topics in the Chinese Foreign Policy. It has been five years since the launch of the BRI. On 17 May 2013 and 7 September 2013, Xi Jinping...

November 22, 2018
Tags: BRI, China Strategy, OBOR, One Belt One Road, China, International Relations and Diplomacy
Cultural Heritage of Jammu and Kashmir, Edited by K. Warikoo, Pentagon Press, 2009, Pages: 338, Price: Rs. 1750, ISBN: 978-81-8274-376-2
Prateek Joshi

Much has been written about Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) by the virtue of its disputed status. The ever growing literature by leading scholars and legal experts has continued to emphasize either on the legal aspect of the Kashmir dispute or has...

September 12, 2018
Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Buddhist, Cultural Heritage, Islamic influences, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Socio-cultural, Jammu & Kashmir
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