Always stay under the deep water, never come up. Remember that a whale can only be hunted when it comes up. This was the advice given to four young American scions by their father. The father, Fred Chase Koch, commanded one of the largest petroleum empires in the US. He was an American chemical engi...
Exchange between Japan and India is perceived to have begun in the 6th century when Buddhism was introduced to Japan. Indian culture, filtered through Buddhism, has had a great impact on Japanese culture and that can be an important contributing factor to the Japanese people’s sense of closeness t...
Mao Zedong once said, “When faced with an opponent, one should push till one meets resistance”, and that could perhaps be what the Chinese are doing at the moment. For over four weeks, India and China have been involved in a standoff along part of their 3500 km shared border. The two nations fou...
The recent Maoist attack in the Sukma district of Chhattisgarh on April 24, 2017 was the latest incident of large scale left wing extremism in India. The attack was an ambush carried out by the Maoists against the Indian paramilitary forces in the Kala Pathar region near Chinta gufa in Sukma....
India and Israel established full diplomatic relations in 1992. Since then, the bilateral relationship between the two countries has grown stronger. The countries have worked closely at economic, military, agricultural and political levels. Both India and Israel see themselves as isolated democracie...
The situation in the Kashmir Valley deteriorated after the death of the Hizbul Mujahedeen terrorist Burhan Wani last year. The mutilation of two Indian army personnel by a Pakistan Special Forces team that came 250 metres across the LoC in the Poonch district worsened matters. In February 2017, thre...
History repeats itself. The Han dynasty started building a trade route from Xi’an, the ancient capital of China to the western world in about 100 to 150 BCE. The road connected the present-day countries of India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, and Syria in South Asia and West Asia and Uzbekist...
American President Donald Trump has confirmed that pressure from the US has compelled six West Asian states to suspend their relations with Qatar. According to Trump, “This is the beginning of the end for the horror of terrorist activities.” The United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Bahrain, and Saudi Ar...
It was the year 1993. The Right won a landslide victory over the Left, getting Jacques Chirac to the Presidency after two years from then. However, the “Plan Juppé”, proposed by then Prime Minister Alain Juppé was a failure, which reduced the popularity of the executive duo. In search of takin...
The Narendra Modi led NDA government completed three years in office this May. It was the first time in three decades (since 1984) that the single largest party was successful to draw absolute majority in Lok Sabha elections. The Modi government has initiated a slew of reforms and introduced a numbe...
