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Modi-fying Kashmir and Historical Facts
The Modi
government on 5th august 2019 revoked two key constitutional provisions —
Article 370 and Article 35A — which gave the state of Jammu and...
Deeper meanings of the Hong Kong protests: Is China a gamechanger or yet another winner?
Does our history only appear overheated, while
it is essentially calmly predetermined? Is it directional or conceivable,
dialectic and eclectic or cyclical, and therefore cynical? Surely,...
Art, poetry, the native as slave, the American Civil War and the promulgation of the Group Areas Act
We must look at the subtle variations of both education and philosophy,
the quality of white lie, truth, the conversation which is significant, key, law,
abstract,...
Views of four Indian foreign secretaries on Kashmir
History tells
when negotiations stall, war results. After the war, most warriors realize that
it was avoidable. India and Pakistan could learn this bitter reality from
Europe...
Power is a drug – What China is the U.S. fighting against?
At the basement floor of the Chinese
National museum in Beijing, there’s a curated collection of China’s imperial
history from antiquity to the fall of the...
Scandinavia Veers Left plus D-Day Reflections as Trump Storms Europe
Mette
Frederiksen of the five-party Social Democrat bloc won 91 of the 169 seats in
the Danish parliament ending the rule of the right-wing Liberal Party...
Pointless Colonial Massacres and Post-Colonial Wars and Killings on the Indian Subcontinent
Two colonial mass killings from the
twentieth century are always remembered: The Qissa Khwani
Bazaar massacre on April 23, 1930 in
Peshawar (then India, now in Pakistan)...
The feminist inspiration of Mona Lisa
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the death of the Italian
genius, Leonardo da Vinci, who died on 02 May 1519. On this occasion,...
China 70 years from now
In my opinion, after
the 19thCPC National Congress, two changes characterize the new form
of Communist China: the amendment to the Party’s Constitution, with the phrase
"Xi...
Russians Need to Question their Foreign Policy
Open, public discussion on Russian
official foreign policy has been rarely seen in Russian history, due largely to
the common perception that the government correctly understands...