Category: National & World

A foreign policy is to a country what social etiquette is to a civilized person. You can survive without it no doubt, but devoid of any social relations or contacts. A nation could have existed fine without a foreign policy in the past based purely on its own resources but in a world of ever-increasing… Continue reading India’s Foreign Policy: Muddled Principles – an analysis by Manish Parashar

India has long been befuddled by trying questions on it’s sketchy foreign policy, never more than in the  reign of the current government. With fledgling loyalties being tested by increasingly real threats, will we be able to take the right stand , or are we destined to repeat time worn mistakes? If it were possible… Continue reading India’s Foreign Policy: Trapped in a Web – Adyasha Ranbir

“In India when people cast their votes, they vote their caste” Nothing can better sum up the political mind-set of the aam aadmi  than these words of Shashi Tharoor. It makes even more sense when elections are being held in the most populous state of India—Uttar Pradesh. Considered to be the penultimate trial of the… Continue reading Uttar Pradesh: A Dirty Story of Cast(e)ing the Vote

The day after the world celebrated the ‘love day’ draped in red, television screens in the evening showcased the antonym of love. As Iran (for your geographical knowledge, a country to India‘s west sharing Pakistan’s western border) ventured into the territory of the N word, the world watched. What was described as ‘open defiance’ rattled… Continue reading The i-BOMB – A Critical Take on the US-Israel-Iran Face-Off by Sambit Dash