Western Bias
The West has never been too comfortable with India’s rise. Indeed, at independence, nobody expected India to survive as a democracy.
The West has never been too comfortable with India’s rise. Indeed, at independence, nobody expected India to survive as a democracy.
Goa stands as a microcosm of the intricacies between power and governance. With polling for both the state’s Lok Sabha seats scheduled for the third phase of the general election today, Goa offers a fascinating glimpse into the complexities at play.
As votes are cast in the third phase of the general elections today, in Karnataka, where the remaining 14 of its 28 Lok Sabha constituencies go to the polls, the spotlight sharply turns to the north of the state.
S ince 17 April, pro-Palestine sitin demonstrations have impacted multiple American universities, bringing education to a standstill. Riot police employed force to take down protestors’ encampments while arresting thousands.
It was a year ago - on 6 May 2023 - that Charles and Camilla had their formal coronation as King and Queen of the U.K. Charles is about the same age as me and I have seen his pictures on TV, newspapers, magazines, and books all my life but without an understanding of his personality.
Geopolitics is the game of strategists figuring out how countries behave.The Ukraine war has shown how assumptions about countries, or the behaviour of their leaders are wrong, plunging the world into what Henry Kissinger has called a “totally new era”.
The history of Myanmar is the history of struggle with coups, military rule, religious persecution, and ethnic conflict. On this course, the intense ongoing violence between the country's military and organised armed civilians is now leading the country to the verge of a full-blown civil war that is unlikely to end anytime soon.
Keith Miller hated Don Bradman’s ruthlessness, especially when employed to pulverise county sides in England. He would come on when sent in and, however easy the bowling, would uninhibitedly throw his wicket to restore sanity to the game.
The flux in the contemporary geopolitical situation is testing the closest of bilateral relationships between nations, and there are few stronger than those between India and France. The strategic partnership between the two countries has been deepened in several key areas from defence to education, climate, energy, digitalisation and technical collaboration.
Beyond the mismatch of intent and budgetary allocation, there is yet another domain of concern that afflicts the Indian tourism sector - sub-optimal or revisionist presentation of Indian tourist sites.
