Why is the India-Australia relationship growing from strength to strength? Ian Hall, Deputy Director (Research), Griffith Asia Institute, shares his thoughts.
If India is to tap the potential of infrastructure development to stimulate growth, it needs to both make the green transition part of the programme & to look at the obstacles to making road-building succeed.
Those who wanted war have prevailed, even as millions of human beings are denied their elementary right to live in peace.
Nature teaches; nature mends. Nature, as we all know & appreciate, is a unique entity. It emerged before civilisation.
With foreign sanctions presiding over a plummeting Russian ruble, Russia’s economic standing has fallen.
The idea of Akhand Bharat is merely a tool for propagdanda. Nothing more.
Russia isn’t being selective on who they’re targeting, so everyone affected by the invasion in Ukraine should be afforded refugee protection no matter their race & nationality.
“I ask you to pray for peace in Ukraine, because in this war against existential evil, prayers special power.”
Zelensky, a comedian who played President on television, has emerged as a wartime hero.
The Operation Ganga started too late & has a conceptual weakness.
Putin revealed the structures of an imperial ideology with a chronology & ambition that goes far beyond post-Soviet nostalgia to the mediaeval era. But to what extent is that ideology shared by Russians?
Putin recognised Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states & ordered his troops to cross into the republic in a “peace-keeping capacity.” This gambit raises more questions than it answers.
Russia’s military threat against Ukraine has put the west in a difficult position. It has to decide how to deal with a belligerent Russia.
The current threat of invasion could be Putin’s attempt to refocus minds around a Minsk II agreement and force parties back to a dialogue.
The slogan “Hindu Hriday Samrat” is a classic case study in political branding that facilitated social division like none other.