Commentary
Uzbekistan’s Pragmatic Engagement with Afghanistan: Significant for the Region

During a recent visit to Tashkent, I had attended the roundtable on ‘Foreign Policy of Uzbekistan: Openness and Prosperity for Peace’ on 25 October 2024. The speakers were some of the prominent policy makers with long experience of diplomacy and ....

Ganderbal Attack 2024: The Emergence of Pakistan-Sponsored TRF

Pakistan has been sponsoring terrorism in Bharat for over the past 30 years to undermine the stability of the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir (hereafter J&K) and other parts of the country. Post-nullification of Article 370 in 2019, J&K did....

A Critical Examination of the SCO Council of Heads of Government Summit in Islamabad

The recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Heads of Government (CHG) Summit held in Islamabad has garnered significant attention due to the regional dynamics among member countries, particularly between India and Pakistan, as well ....

Earth Sciences Ministry : Not ‘Glamorous’, but Critical to Lives and Livelihood

What does the Finance Ministry do? What role does the Home Ministry perform? What are the functions of the External Affairs Ministry? What is the purpose of the Defence Ministry? Put these questions to any lay citizen, and one can expect a fairly acc....

Maldives and India: Better Late Than Never

The President of Maldives Mohammed Muizzu, accompanied by his wife, landed at New Delhi on Sunday,6th October on a four-day state visit on the invitation of his Indian counterpart. This was his first state visit to India after he won the election in ....

My humble Homage to the great man, Ratan Tata

Ratan Tata my friend whom I admired immensely is no more. My 5 decades of relation with him became more intense during & after globalisation hit Indian industry like a tsunami. Indian businessmen were selling out. I met many of them, but found Ratan ....

West Asia Peace: The Lost Chance in Camp David Summit of 2000

The Iran-Hezbollah-Hamas axis and all those others pitted against Israel in the ongoing conflict in West Asia have demanded that Israel should vacate the territories it has occupied; territories they that they say belong to the Palestinians. If Israe....

The Art of Escape: From Fleeting Getaways to Profound Journeys/ Purushartha

Have you ever gotten burnt out from the mundane routine and yearned to lose yourself amidst the towering peaks of majestic mountains or the soothing caress of sun-kissed shores by leaving all the weight of the world behind? Whether it's connecting to....

India’s Hard Power through the Prism of Gandhi’s Soft Power of Non-violence

When the world will be observing Gandhi’s birthday as International Day of Non-violence as declared by the United Nations and at a time when India has emerged as one of the major powers in the world demonstrating its prowess, a natural question ari....

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