Geopolitical imperatives for modern India – I
It is a sad fact that foreign and security policies of independent India had not been sufficiently influenced by geopolitical concepts and logics, but rather more by ideological convictions, internal political considerations More...
What should be the future of POK? A Legal Perspective
The abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution of India by the Hon’ble Home Minister of India, Shri Amit Shah last month has sparked number of debates, the most prominent of them being what shall be the future More...
The Rāma Story and Sanskrit in Ancient Xinjiang
Most people do not know that until about a thousand years ago, the Tarim Basin (northwest of Tibet, which is the part of Xinjiang below the Tian Shin Mountains) was Indic in culture and it was a thriving part of More...
China’s Tryst with Sanskrit as Area Studies: A Few Lessons on Diplomacy for India
Policymakers have a lot to learn from historians and language experts. So do diplomats. Unless the policymakers of a country like India – which is surrounded by aggressive, imperialist nations on three sides – More...
Red Dragon Claws Clasp Bhutan, Making India vulnerable
It is no secret that China has been asserting its dominance for the last 50 years on land, sea and even in space. Every one of its actions have been executed with machine like precision, its modus operandi being More...
China’s Oppression of Muslims – The Weak Link in the Sino-Islamic Alliance
India lives in a dangerous neighborhood. The two biggest threats to India’s security and civilizational integrity are from Islamic fundamentalism originating to its west and Chinese expansionism in the north and More...
The Chinese self-designation Hua and the root-word Ᾱrya
It is but rare that I take the trouble to write a mere summary of a paper I have read with increasing enthusiasm. Here is one occasion. It pertains to “The earliest Chinese words for ‘the Chinese’: the phonology, More...
Calling Arunachal Pradesh ‘A disputed territory’ is a factual mistake by media houses
As we all know Arunachal Pradesh and North East are integral parts of India and all states of north east choose their chief ministers democratically by election process. Few days ago, a terrorist outfit named ULFA More...
Tibet – Land of Lamas & Lament
Some lands live more in imagination and fabled lore than on the physical planes of Earth, have more reality in their legends and mystical mysteries than in the dry pages of history and geography, exude such great More...
Call for the trial of Manmohan Singh and his Foreign Policy team
I have strong reasons to call for the trial of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and key members of his foreign policymaking team such as Shivshankar Menon, Salman Khurshid and M.K. Narayanan for treason against More...