Expert Explains | Why the Quad has never picked up…

The recent Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) held in New Delhi, among the foreign ministers of Australia, India, Japan and the USA, came as an assurance that the grouping remains relevant. While the rationale behind

Expert Explains | In Trump, Putin’s China trips, X…

In Chinese culture, the legendary Yellow Emperor (known as Huangdi) has been regarded as the mystical founder of imperial China. Seen as a supreme deity-like figure, he came to occupy civilizational space, associated with

Expert Explains: As new West Bengal govt turns foc…

Last week, in one of its first Cabinet decisions, the new BJP-led government in West Bengal decided to hand over land at the Bangladesh border to the Border Security Force (BSF) to complete fencing.

US, China, and the Thucydides Trap: Why Xi used th…

At the recent US-China summit in Beijing, Xi Jinping said the two countries should avoid falling into the ‘Thucydides Trap’. The Chinese President’s use of the term, referring to an ancient rivalry, has drawn

When Chandigarh was a soulmate

After a prolonged field tenure in the Northeast and the Bangladesh War, our Battalion moved to Chandi Mandir in the early 1970s for its peace station turnover. Due to the paucity of authorised accommodation,