On 16 Oct 1962, Kennedy’s NSA walked into the White House with ‘proof’ of Soviet missile deployment in Cuba. What followed was a ‘naval quarantine’ of the Caribbean nation.
'We're headbutting over history more and more now–not just in academia but in politics, social media, YouTube, and WhatsApp. It’s like history is on steroids,' says Rama Lakshmi, Editor, PastForward.
Ethnic Armenians flee after Azerbaijan reclaims Nagorno-Karabakh following military operation on 19 Sept. Crisis is one of the largest displacement of people since the Soviet fall in 1991.
Soviet babies were named Indira, Sita and Gita, Indian children were called Stalin, Stalinjeet, Natasha. The USSR was a blueprint for Indian nation-building.
For the two countries with a conjoined history, things went downhill after 1991, on the issue of NATO, EU and the conflicting demands of nationalists & ethnic Russian separatists
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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