Barack Obama at the twilight of his presidency had to undergo a few diplomatic skirmishes. The Brazilian President cancelling bi lateral talks over NSA and wiretapping, the red carpet protocol denial ...
With the introduction of Glasnost and Perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev triggered the downfall of the Soviet Union and erstwhile Communist empire. The results were devastating. There sprung many small dominions from the ...
On the side-lines of the 8th BRICS meeting, India and Russia signed a massive defence deal in Goa on Saturday. Modi and Vladimir Putin signed on 16 agreements which are going ...
A quote by Confucius: 主忠信。毋友不如己者。過，則勿憚改。 Translation: “Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard. When making a mistake, do not be afraid to ...
The country’s pseudo-liberal brigade is at it again. This time it has come out against the Raj Thackeray led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, which issued an ultimatum asking Pakistani artists to leave ...
Recently I happened to read ‘JFKs forgotten crisis’ by Bruce Reidal, a book which peeps into Kennedy administration’s handling of the less spotlighted war at the Indo china border in 1962 ...
Our generation often harbors the belief that it's better than the ones before it because it is less religious and more tolerant than the ones before it. It is obviously a ...
Poor Baluchistan- so close to Pakistan and so far from liberty. But while the Baluchis do deserve and need our full sympathies, it might be possible that Indians- at least the ...
It's called Olympics. It is not an exaggeration to say that India has got the most shameful record in Olympics compared to every other nation on earth. Looks like ...
Back in 1990, when India was still a de facto Soviet client state and it cost INR 10 a minute to call someone on the phone, there had been a war, ...
On July 1st of this year, an anti-ship missile- the supersonic Hsiung-feng III (“Brave Wind”) - was launched from a Chinese naval vessel. It struck a Taiwanese fishing trawler, killing three ...
On 1st July 2016, seven armed jihadis stormed into the Holey Artisan bakery in the upmarket Gulshan area of Dhaka, taking more than 30 people hostage. In a throwback to the ...
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