The India-Malaysia relationship has come a long way since 2019, when Malaysia’s the then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad ruined the ties with his uncalled-for remark on Kashmir—he said that ‘New Delhi had invaded and occupied Kashmir’. He ha....
Tags : Commentary , Kashmir , Zakir Naik , CAA , Mahathir Mohammad , Anwar Ibrahim
आयुधानामहं वज्रं धेनूनामस्मि कामधुक् प्रजनशाऽस्मि कन्दर्पः सर्पाणामस्मि वासुकिः “Among weapons....
Tags : Commentary , Bharat , data sovereignty , Gaming Industry , itihasa
The recent collapse of the global supply chains that threatened to integrate the world without borders, have left economists and statesmen bewildered. Over a century ago, British economist Alfred Marshall said economics meant political economy. Wh....
“Yoga comes from India and it is a very old tradition. Yoga is free from copyrights, patents and royalty payments. Yoga is adaptable to your age, gender and fitness level. Yoga is portable and is truly universal”....
International Relations and Diplomacy , Governance and Political Studies , Reflections on PM Narendra Modi's Foreign Policy
Tags : PM Modi , Yoga , International Day of Yoga , Meditation , holistic health , Reflections on PM Narendra Modi's Foreign Policy , UNESCO Cultural Heritage , Yoga Gurus , Integrative health , Yoga Economy , Yoga Diplomacy
The 1990s were a time of global change. The fall of the Berlin Wall led to Francis Fukuyama arguing in The End of History and the Last Man that western liberal democracy had triumphed and there was to be nothing thereafter in the developmental....
National Security and Strategic Studies , Governance and Political Studies , Climate Change , Reflections on PM Narendra Modi's Foreign Policy
Tags : Climate Change , Development , Environment , mitigation , adaptation , Reflections on PM Narendra Modi's Foreign Policy , India's Climate Policy , Determinants and Evolution
Every now and then, especially during election seasons but even otherwise, the subject of providing reservations based on religion is raised by somebody or the other, whether in the political field or outside. On occasions, a few state governments ev....
Tags : Commentary , Constituent Assembly , Scheduled Castes , Scheduled Tribes , Other Backward Classes , 42nd Amendment
Three generations of Indians who grew later remained illiterates about the very fact of Emergency and about how Constitution ceased to exist and autocracy was institutionalised by it. Rahul Gandhi was waving the Constitution of India as Prime Mini....
Tags : Article , Constitution , Indira Gandhi , Emergency
With the dust of the 2024 election having finally settled and a new National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government having been sworn in it is now appropriate to attempt to tease out some of its key takeaways. For starters, it should definitively pu....
Tags : Commentary , India , democracy , Congress , BJP , election , PM Modi , NDA , Opposition
Two interesting bits of news filtered in towards the close of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. One, was that an attempt to influence the polls through the misuse of artificial intelligence by a foreign agency had been foiled. And two, was that an organi....
Tags : Commentary , CIA , OpenAI , DisInfo Lab , George Soros , Rajiv Malhotra , Vijaya Viswanathan , STOIC
Introduction In late 2019, a notable increase in cases (a cluster) of atypical pneumonia occurred in Wuhan, China.[1] That prompted the World Health Organization (WH....
Tags : COVID-19 pandemic , Vaccine Diplomacy , Reflections on PM Narendra Modi's Foreign Policy , Equitable Healthcare , Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network (CoWIN) , Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2