Utpal Kumar

During the Biden regime, especially, in the past three years, American diplomacy has facilitated the coming together of Russia and China. And, now, it is trying hard to alienate India as well

The fundamental problem with Kamala Harris' ‘Festival of Lights' narrative is that it attempts to secularise Diwali by divorcing it from its religio-cultural milieu

The Indian leadership must make it clear to Canada, and its ‘Fives Eyes' friends, that there cannot be a normal relationship with a terror-sponsoring nation

At a time when official legislation gives absolute power to Waqf Boards to spread their boundaries, more than doubling their properties in just over a decade, it's a double whammy for Hindus to be even denied the right to judicial recourse

Narendra Modi and Donald Trump are going to dominate the global arena for the rest of the decade, the prospect of which is enough to send the woke, politically-correct Left-‘liberal' world order in a state of meltdown

Xi Jinping decided to step back only when he realised that this was a never-ending stalemate. Given the Dragon's nature, India should now be prepared for China's proverbial ‘two steps forward' plan

Today, as the Chinese economy is losing steam, its real estate is in a mess, and the BRI is faltering, Beijing is in a desperate situation, with many China watchers, including Bertil Lintner, hinting at the end of the Chinese century

While the Indian influence in the so-called Silk Road region had been intense and overwhelming, the Chinese presence appearsed to be cursory, at best. The Chinese, in fact, were late entrants in Central Asia. According to eminent scholar Rahul Sankrityayan, as he writes in Madhya Asia Ka Itihas (History of Central Asia), when Chinese envoy Chiang Kyang, sent by Chinese emperor Wi-ti (141-87 BC), came to Central Asia to have the first-hand information about the region and to persuade the Tusharas (Yueh-chis) to return to their original homeland, he found Indian and Chinese goods in Bactria brought by Indian traders. So, till the 2nd century BC, the Chinese were largely clueless about Central Asia, as Indians traders introduced both India and Chinese goods to the region.

The Chinese are innately programmed to see goodwill gestures as a sign of weakness. In communist China, after all, the path to peace often comes out of the barrel of a gun

Scottish author William Dalrymple acknowledges India's contribution but doesn't seem to be quite enthusiastic about the Hindu roots of the same. He wants to safeguard its physical infrastructure, but is working hard to tamper with its soul