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Rahul Sankrityayan’s Tibet connect debunks false Chinese Narrative
During the annual ‘Two Meetings’ in Beijing, it was announced that China’s defence budget for 2024 would be $231.36 billion, an increase of 7.2 per cent from the previous year (about thrice the size of the Indian defence budget); it is a large increase, especially when one knows that official figures are only a fraction of the actual...
Why India Must Deepen Its Ties With Myanmar To Counter China
Myanmar is as much a neighbour of India as other countries in our subcontinent. Whether India pays the same attention to Myanmar as it does to Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives or even Afghanistan, is a question. It is not neglecting Myanmar, of course. New Delhi provides development aid and is involved in projects there. India’s...
Can there be a Modern-Day Leader who believes in the Superiority of Race?
COULD LAWRENCE REES EXPLAIN THE FUNDAMENTAL PRECONDITIONS OF THE HOLOCAUST? British historian and scholar Lawrence Reese in his latest book published in May 2024 explains in the following words “The fundamental precondition for the Holocaust happening was Adolf Hitler,” he explains from his home in London. “Even as far back as 1921,...
Hard Realities - Is India Ready For A Real Taliban Outreach?
India has now begun to engage more uninhibitedly with the Taliban leadership in Kabul, as was demonstrated by a March 7 visit of a delegation of the Ministry of External Affairs to the Afghan capital and the subsequent press coverage it received. The Taliban’s control of Afghanistan is now a hard reality, with which India has begun to...
The Question of Alevi Minority in Turkey and its Religious Identity
Introduction Up to now, not once expressed by Turkey’s President R. T. Erdoğan a possibility to organize a national referendum on Turkish membership to the European Union (the EU) opened many questions of different nature followed by old and new problems. A current European political concern is reflected in many controversial issues and one...