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On the 26th of December 1991, the Soviet Union was officially disintegrated by then President of USSR, Mr Mikhail Gorbachev, marking an official end to the cold war and the mighty Soviet Union, which was perceived to be a dreamland of communism. From a hardcore stalinist-communist  era to a disruptive era of the scrambling reformer Gorbachev, the USSR witnessed a series of power dynamics, transformative landmarks, historical milestones and lousy geopolitical pitfalls. The principal confrontation was between the ideological, philosophical and intellectual themes of Soviet socialism versus American Capitalism, where socialism embarked upon an enigmatic state of equality and social justice that appealed to the poorer classes, the capitalist system promised economic freedoms, liberty and democracy to its people. However towards the end of the 1980’s the scenario was quite clear, American capitalism with its strategic power and resolve had superseded or rather crushed the Soviet social...

    Contemporary Geopolitics is making the world order navigate through highly turbulent and vociferous times. Combating a pandemic and the apprehensive rise of Chinese hegemony has caused the already disruptive diplomatic institutions in the world, to engage in a transactional and an aggressive modus operandi. India's international challenges are no different than these; the rising hostilities with the Chinese, Pakistan’s everlasting nuisance, growing strategic gaps in the Indian subcontinent, dynamic changes in the Asian and Global Geopolitics compels us to address the concerns of strategic ambiguity which is supposed to have gripped the policymaking community and the echelons of decision-making authorities both in political and bureaucratic circles. Therefore examining and analyzing the nature and conduct of India’s foreign policy, the structural fault lines and strategic ambiguity that come along with it becomes critical. A clear understanding of India's foreign policy in ...

The Indian subcontinent has had a painful history of partition that had traumatized an entire generation of people, both from the eastern and the western side of the newly formed State of Pakistan. The tragic episode of the 1971 war and its fallout were no different from 1947-48. Millions of people especially the Hindus, Buddhists, Shiks and Jains poured into Indian borders, millions were displaced and millions were killed. However, the irony is, we still do not have the official data of the exact number of refugees who came into India, and millions of people are living “Stateless” existence in inhuman conditions within the refugee camps. Ignorance of the Government, polarizing politics by the political parties, civil society groups and NGO’s who deliberately act oblivious to the dreadful conditions of the refugees living in India has furthermore aggravated the problem. Therefore it becomes very important to analyze the gravity of this crisis, to deliver justice to the refugees a...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to India on 6th December 2021 marked an important milestone of a privileged strategic relationship. Being India’s most reliable and substantive defence partner and a key strategic ally since the days of the Soviet Union, Russia has always embarked upon the principle of deep cultural affinity and a natural friendship that goes beyond the conventional bilateral ties. Russia has consistently backed India on critical issues concerning India’s national interests and national security. However with the reset of the global order and the changing dynamics in the geopolitics, especially in the Asian region, national self-interests and the considerations of National security has affected the growth of the relationship, not in a gloomy manner, but as a clandestine indication of the diversifying interests in the bilateral partners. India’s foreign policy towards Russia has been of sustained continuity, irrespective of the change in Governments and their ide...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his recent address to the nation announced the withdrawal of the historic farm laws, which had the scope to bring about significant reforms in the agricultural sector. However the exact reasons for this is unknown, but a lot of speculations regarding its electoral calculations affecting states of Punjab, Haryana and western UP is being made by several political analysts across the country. But this article focus on a more serious National Security concern that is being cited by a couple of commentators in the public domain. That is the resurgence of the Khalistan movement in the state of Punjab.  From almost a decade now, the factions of the Sikh community in India and abroad especially from UK and Canada, are showing a radicalised-separatist tendency, with absolute hatered to India by consistently working against the Indian interests abroad. It is almost quite clear that these separatist elements have the political backing of Pakistan's establishme...