India’s neighborhood presently is rather fragmented. After Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, Bangladesh is the third neighbor witnessing a regime change ridden with violence and unrest, with similar playbook. A popular uprising against an unpopular leader, followed by his/her fleeing, mobs taking over the Palace/Parliament spaces, loot, vandalize and destroy public property, with security forces no […]
Indians misled into Russian Army services; Swiss Peace summit a tamasha: Russian Charge de Affairs Roman Babushkin
In the follow up of PM Modi’s Russia visit on the 8-9 July, Charge d’ Affaires of Russia in India, Roman Babushkin addressing media called the visit ‘historic and game changing’. He said that the world was watching it and it was a significant event between “two independent global powers.”
Farmers 2.0, Shahrukh and Putin, a blockbuster week
The farmers have marched back to Delhi with their demands, for which they sat on roads leading to the national capital with their tractors coverted into cabins for close 13 months in 2020-21 in the chilling months of winter. The protest is to nudge the govt to fulfill their demands of which making MSP legal, […]
A La Lakshdweep vs Maldives
I may or may not be a Modi die hard fan but the recent India Maldives episode has made me sit up , dust my hands, adjusted my collars and say, ‘Yeh mera India, I love my India’. A social media post of PM Modi in Lakshadweep has turned the neighbor called Maldives, a hyper […]
For Maldives under Muizzu..India or China, choose it will have to
The swearing in of Muizzu as President of Maldives is yet a turning of another leaf as much for India Maldives relations as for regional strategic dynamics. Indian former minister Kiren Rijuju who attended the ceremony as rep of Modi government was told in no uncertain terms that Indian Defense personnel should move out of […]