DR. MAHESH KAUL When a country rewrites its own birth certificate — burning the photographs of its liberation heroes, erasing their faces from currency notes, and saluting the flag of the nation that once tried to destroy it — something more than a political transition has taken place. Inshallah Bangladesh: The Story of an Unfinished Revolution is…
Chander M Bhat Standing at the north-western portal of the Kashmir Valley, where the emerald waters of the Vitasta (Jhelum) carve through rugged mountains before opening into the fertile basin, lies Baramulla, ancient Varahamula. More than just a town, Baramulla has always been a threshold, a place of passage, encounter, and transformation. For millennia, it has…
Vikas Kapoor When my father once asked me to leave our home, I wept to the very depths of my being, unable to understand what had gone wrong between us. It was only later that I discovered he had suffered his first hallucination episode nearly one and a half years earlier — a silent beginning…
Dr. Ramesh Taimiri Abhinav Pandya’s The Jihad Game: Inside Pakistan’s Dark War, published recently, is a book long overdue. It stands as perhaps the finest work on the terrorist challenge in Kashmir since 1990. Earlier books on the theme—such as Manoj Joshi’s The Lost Rebellion (late 1990s), Sati Sahni’s jour nalistic Kashmir Underground, and Praveen Swami’s…
S.K.Khushu President Donald Trump’s recent rhetoric and tariff threats against India reveal a pattern of coercive diplomacy aimed at forcing New Delhi to align with U.S. interests, particularly in energy purchases. Trump has publicly mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claiming Modi “begged” him with phrases like “Sir, can I come to America?” and insisting “Modi…
Impact on India-Bangladesh Relations DR.MAHESH KAUL The brutal lynching of Dipu Chandra Das on December 18, 2025, in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, has emerged as a flashpoint in the deteriorating relationship between India and Bangladesh, highlighting deep-seated tensions over minority rights, political transitions, and regional power dynamics. The incident, which saw a 27-year-old Hindu garment worker beaten,…
VIKAS KAPOOR In dealing with Pakistan, India must carefully balance its diplomacy with other major powers such as China, Russia, the US, various European countries, and Saudi Arabia. Historically, while both countries gained independence simultaneously, Pakistan’s economic growth has lagged far behind India due to a lopsided approach to development and a persistent focus on…
Strategic metals driving the new age of geopolitics & technology VIKAS KAPOOR As the world enters an era defined by artificial intelligence, stealth weaponry, and clean energy, Rare Earth Elements (REEs) have emerged as the new strategic resource, the “oil” of the 21st century. Once obscure, these 17 critical minerals now form the backbone of modern defence systems, digital…
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