In reality, and in fiction, the most powerful love sagas have flourished with the whiff of gunpowder, with death waiting at the next corner. Read More

The Tibet plateau has a long association with ancient India. Descendants of Tibetan tribes came and settled in parts of north India centuries ago, like the Kinnauri-speaking people of Himachal Pradesh. We shared trade and other cultural ties with Tibet for hundreds of years. Read More

The adversary is continuously evolving its tactics in order to outmanoeuvre the border-guarding forces. The leadership therefore has to be mentally mobile and have deep insight of the prevailing security environment along the borders to face up to these challenges. Read More

Have women gone to real wars? Not the exceptional super woman but the girl next door? How have they fared on the battlefields of history? What kind of societies sent them to war, under what circumstances? Read More

It is natural for nations to empower national diplomacy using whatever leverages they may have at their disposal as long as their diplomacy remains within the bounds of international norms and codes of decency worthy of a country, says Professor Swaran Singh. Read More

The efforts of Indian Police Service to retain their hegemony over the senior posts in central armed police forces is like the events leading to the epic battle of Mahabharata where the mighty Kauravas employ all tricks of trade to deprive the Pandavas of their rightful dues. Read More

Rahul Dev was recently inducted into the Pakistani Air Force (PAF) with much media fanfare. Major Hercharan Singh, a Sikh, had also joined the Pakistani Army in the early 2000s and his marriage in 2017 was attended by a posse of Pakistani Generals. Read More

India has been working on 5G policy for quite some time now. However, there has been one burning issue – the Huawei issue. India now has the chance to block the controversial company’s entry into India. Read More

The current geo-politics and geo-strategy of India-China relations runs counter to the rich, ancient cultural linkages between the countries. Read More

With the blood flowing on India-China line of actual control in Galwan valley of eastern Ladakh, Indian blood all across the globe have been boiling ever since the news of the killing of 20 Indian Army personnel came out. Read More