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India’s Freedom: Subhas Bose and INA
September 8 , 2022 Raghvendra Singh, Senior Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 2277
The British consistently endeavoured to black out all news concerning the Indian National army (INA) throughout the period of its existence. As a consequence, very little was known of the INA in India. The British called it ‘JIFs’, the Japanese Inspired Forces. They made it appear that some prisoners of war had joined the Japanese to escape the rigour and toil. Subhas Bose was portrayed as a dissenting radical maverick, driven by personal ambitions. Not till the INA trials began that India got to know about INA. The impact was tremendous.
Tags : National Security and Strategic Studies , INA , India’s freedom struggle , Japan , Subhas Bose
India at 75: Foreign and Economic Policies and the Road ahead
September 8 , 2022 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Podcast Views: 2161
Since independence India has evolved at a rapid pace and successfully embraced numerous structural changes. Amid the 21st century realities, as India turns 75, its foreign policy and growing economic capabilities lend a sense of optimism about the country's future. India certainly has the potential to navigate as a leading power, both in the South Asian region and the international system.
Tags : Economic Policy , economy , foreign policy , [email protected] , International Relations , International Relations and Diplomacy
Growing Prowess of TTP amidst Negotiations
September 7 , 2022 Soumya Awasthi
Article Views: 2383
After a decade and a half long rift between the Pakistan government and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and several failed peace treaties, the two sides again attempted an uneasy truce in June 2022 to prevent further bloodshed by having a "three month-long complete ceasefire", only to be breached in times to come.[1] This cessation of violence resulted after weeks of secret meetings between TTP and the Pakistan military in Kabul, mediated by the Afghan Taliban.
Tags : Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , Army , Central Asian history , China , ETIM , ISI , Muslim Khan , negotiation , Peace Talk , Shura , Taliban , Taliban Pakistan , Waziristan , Pakistan , Neighbourhood Studies
Sinostan: China's Growing Influence in Central Asia
September 7 , 2022 Raffaello Pantucci
Podcast Views: 2302
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, China had greater ambitions to establish cordial relations with newly independent CARs, which had not previously been the case due to Sino-Soviet animosity. In addition, the geopolitical vacuum left by the collapse of the Soviet Union has offered enough possibilities for Beijing to expand its commercial and economic links with Central Asia. Similarly, the Central Asian republics were in severe need of economic stabilisation and saw China as a possible alternative.
Tags : BRI , Central Asia , China , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Sinophobia , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , Uyghurs , Uzbekistan , Xinjiang , International Relations and Diplomacy
An Outline of the Development of Ancient Historical and Archaeological Studies in India
September 6 , 2022 Dr Dilip K. Chakrabarti, Editor, VIF History Volumes
Article Views: 2458
There is a wide range of studies on this topic, often contentious in various ways. Here I shall adopt a simple factual approach, outlining how the study of ancient Indian history and archaeology has developed in different stages from the mid-18th century to the present. Ancient Indian History
Tags : ancient India , Archaeological Survey of India , archaeology , Asiatic Society , Cunningham , Elphinstone , Indologists , Mauryan , Mohenjo-Daro , Historical and Civilisational Studies
The Iraqi Political Conundrum
September 6 , 2022 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 2551
Iraq’s problems do not seem to go away. Any effort for a domestic stabilization always meets with an unequal and more intense opposing force. Politico- religious leaders hold the sway. External powers play their own games in keeping their stables always charged. People are totally dissatisfied and disgruntled by the political dispensation at least since 2003. Removal of Saddam Hussein should have led to some stability and a way forward to meet the democratic aspirations of the ordinary Iraqi but that precisely is not the case.
Tags : Ali Khamenei , Iran , Iraq , Kurds , Sadr , Shia , Sunni , International Relations and Diplomacy
Gorbachev’s Legacy: A Reformer Who Lost the Game
September 5 , 2022 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Article Views: 2632
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and the last president of the Soviet Union, passed away in Moscow on 30 August 2022 at the age of 91. He was no ordinary leader. He was the principal architect of the end of the cold war who, through his liberal reformist policy of perestroika, unwittingly presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The forces of change, unleashed by perestroika, became uncontrollable. Gorbachev wanted to make the socialist system, of which he had been an inseparable part, more ‘democratic’ and humane’.
Tags : glasnost , Gorbachev , Marxist-Leninist , perestroika , Putin , Russia , Ukraine , USSR , Russia , International Relations and Diplomacy
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