The Delhi launch of Rajiv Dogra’s 'Autocrats: Charisma, Power and Their Lives' provided an opportune moment to explore the psyche of autocratic leaders.
After Islamic State-linked terrorists slaughtered over a hundred people at Moscow’s Crocus Theatre last week, Putin alleged that the West had pulled the strings.
The Varun Dhawan Jahnvi Kapoor movie Bawaal has come under the scanner. But it’s just the tip of India’s fascination with the Nazi dictator which ranges from soap operas to merch.
Once overlooked by the secular establishment, Subhas Chandra Bose was eventually sought to be appropriated by communists, embraced by socialists, reclaimed by Congress, and adopted as a hero by Hindu supremacists.
In her book 'The Newspaper Axis', Kathryn Olmsted, a history professor at UC Davis, writes that media's role was central to the western powers' ignorance of the Nazi threat in 1930s.
Here’s what’s happening across the border: Photo of foreign minister receiving standing ovation at UN is fake, and ‘Instagram lovers’ take Pakistan by storm.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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