'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.
Indians see West Asia as one uninterrupted wash of Islam, but the reality is more complex. For the Druze, support from Israel—where they are a recognised minority—is now critical.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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.