'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
In an article in ‘A New Cold War’ edited by Sanjaya Baru and Rahul Sharma, Kanti Bajpai writes that the US’ fascination with China has been far greater than with India.
China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
Two corrections- Amur and Usuri rivers are not in South Eastern China, they are in North Eastern China. As well, the PLA could not have been looking across those rivers for “a hundred years”. PLA formally came into existence only in 1949. Other Chinese armies under various leaderships and dynasties perhaps did look across those rivers for a hundred years, but not the PLA.
Two corrections- Amur and Usuri rivers are not in South Eastern China, they are in North Eastern China. As well, the PLA could not have been looking across those rivers for “a hundred years”. PLA formally came into existence only in 1949. Other Chinese armies under various leaderships and dynasties perhaps did look across those rivers for a hundred years, but not the PLA.