Book Review

Reimagining India – In the Geopolitics of the 21st Century
22Sep By Abhishek KumarNo Comments
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Reimagining India – In the Geopolitics of the 21st Century

An important aspect that defines the essence of Geopolitics is the highly interconnected nature of its functioning. The events that occur and gradually evolve in one region are likely to have geopolitical implications for other regions. A careful observation of the events that had taken place just prior to the turn of the century and also that took place just after it, when the world entered into the twenty-first century, is interesting to note. It provides a picture of the changing world order which was continuously shaped by those events.  The book ‘Reimagining India - In the Geopolitics of the 21st Century’ edited by Dr. Nanda Kishor and Prashanth Vaidyaraj, in this context, is a deeply insightful and well-researched book that provides a comprehensive picture of India’s for...
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Quo Vadis Xi and PLA?
7Aug By Balaji Subramanian1 Comment
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Quo Vadis Xi and PLA?

If one were to delve into the history of China until 1976, when Mao Zedong one of the greatest mass murderers of all time passed away, there is the story of the greatest human tragedies of modern contemporary history. However, all that changed in 1976 after Mao’s passing as China began a new path toward prosperity under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping who followed the principle of the “Peaceful rise of China” and Hide your strength, bide your time.” But to make a long story short, all that Changed under the present leadership of Xi Jinping who is using the People Liberation Army (PLA) as a continuation of his politics.  The book The Dragon’s Bite: Strategic Continuum and Chinese PLA’s Evolving Fire and Teeth written by retired Major General Rajiv Narayanan ...
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Highlighting India’s Bilateral Engagements In South Asia
2May By Sana Zulfikar AhmedNo Comments
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Highlighting India’s Bilateral Engagements In South Asia

The book "Indian Foreign Policy towards South Asia" is an edited volume by Dr. Chakali Bramhayya from Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (IGNTU), Amarkantak and Dr. Karamala Areesh Kumar from St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Bengaluru. The authorship of the book covers a wide range of research institutes and universities across the country. The edited volume consists of thirteen chapters on various foreign policy issues of the South Asian region. Chapter One, titled "India's Foreign Policy Interests in South Asia: Understanding Neighborhood Strategy", by Dr. Chakali  Bramhayya, Dr. Karamala Areesh Kumar and Hari Yadav. G, gives an outlook of India's immediate Neighborhood policy under Modi's foreign policy doctrine. The chapter also focuses on the geographical importan...
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Modi Leading India in a Geopolitical Fog of Uncertainty: An Anthology of Essays
28Mar By Balaji SubramanianNo Comments
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Modi Leading India in a Geopolitical Fog of Uncertainty: An Anthology of Essays

The book, 'Modi Shaping a Global Order in Flux' is a seminal collection of essays written by a diverse group of strategic thinkers, scholars, and diplomats with practical knowledge that highlights the statesmanship, leadership, and moral courage of Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi and provides the world with a strong moral compass to resolve disputes. The book is divided into five sections and each chapter addresses various challenges India has encountered since 2019 in a constantly changing geopolitical volatile environment and the complex navigation in a fragile multilateral world each having its own self-interests. This book gives a succinct insight into a variety of subjects like Covid-19 that brought existential challenges for India and how the government managed to ino...
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Officer, Hamesha Aage: The Story of K J S ‘Tiny’ Dhillon Lt Gen (Retd)
21Feb By Balaji SubramanianNo Comments
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Officer, Hamesha Aage: The Story of K J S ‘Tiny’ Dhillon Lt Gen (Retd)

Lt. Gen. Dhillion lived by these three words - Imandari, Wafadari, Zimmedari and his autobiography exemplifies this through numerous exhilarating instances. “Shed not recklessly the blood of another with thy sword, Lest the Sword on High falls upon thy neck.”Guru Gobind Singh Ji's 'Zafarnama' When I finished reading the autobiography of Lt Gen KJS 'Tiny' Dhillon, it felt like a script written by Quentin Tarantino who is famous for using non-linear narrative as a tool to introduce his characters multiple times, through different characters' perspectives, in all timelines. When I was living in Auckland, New Zealand, I would visit the local Gurudwara on Sundays to listen to the Guru ki Bani and enjoy the "Langar Prasad". Though I heard this sermon over ten years ago, it remained...
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Understanding the Multi-Dimensional Frameworks working assiduously to Disintegrate Bharat
28Dec By Viswapramod C3 Comments
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Understanding the Multi-Dimensional Frameworks working assiduously to Disintegrate Bharat

Rajiv Malhotra and Vijaya Vishwanathan’s new masterpiece “Snakes in the Ganga”, has recently become the pioneering document and a well-researched body of literature, on how the American intelligentsia, spearheaded by Harvard University is intellectually influencing a new generation of “sepoys”, from research scholars to academicians, and Journalists to top bureaucrats, who make the critical decisions towards policy-making and governance in India.  The byline ‘Breaking India 2.0’ explains the new threats and dangers, which come with an elitist sophistication and panache in its outlook and presentation, on how an unfavourable intellectual dissection of ‘India Studies’ is systematically taking place. Mr Malhotra explains that the battleground of breaking India has changed from its previo...
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Realising the Communal Realities of the sub-continent leading to the horrific Partition
28Oct By Viswapramod CNo Comments
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Realising the Communal Realities of the sub-continent leading to the horrific Partition

Ram Madhav’s recent book “Partitioned Freedom” offers us a new and different perspective on the most troubled and traumatized times of modern Indian history, from the beginning of the 1900s to India’s political freedom, in 1947. This a thought-provoking title, which focuses on the events, incidents and chronicles that led to the fractured, amputated and divided India, which was up in communal flares across the country raging with famines and extreme levels of poverty. He delves into the inevitability of partition, despite the fact that most leaders in the mainstream freedom struggle, were against even the notion and the idea of partition. When the Idea, was formally materialized by the Muslim League, in the 1940 Lahore session, most Indian Leaders, dismissed it and thought that it wou...
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Afghanistan, a Graveyard for Empires to Wage Wars
19Jul By Balaji Subramanian1 Comment
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Afghanistan, a Graveyard for Empires to Wage Wars

Afghanistan is often called the 'graveyard of empires' but in reality, it is simply a graveyard where empires go to wage their wars. It is land that has been invaded first by the Persians, Greeks, and then the Arabs who brought Islam after a long struggle against the Hindus and Buddhists who lived there, and later the Mongols under Genghis Khan and many more. However, the two most famous words uttered over one hundred fifty years ago by a British Army officer named Arthur Connolly who coined the term, "Great Game" still resonates one way or another in Afghanistan. Since then its fortune has always been decided by foreigners. In the beginning, the great game was played between Great Britain and Russia. After the end of the Second World War, the United States of America eme...
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Maharanas, The Untold Story of One Thousand Year Resistance of the Sisodiyas Of Mewad Against Islamic Invaders
14May By Balaji Subramanian1 Comment
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Maharanas, The Untold Story of One Thousand Year Resistance of the Sisodiyas Of Mewad Against Islamic Invaders

Any Islamist apologist or pseudo-liberal historians in Bharat who claim that the invading Muslim horde from the hot deserts of Arabia and later from Central Asia could have easily converted the Sanatanis of Bharat to Islam are lying. Arguments such as Hindus are still the majority in India because Islam is a religion of peace and those who converted to Islam because of social injustices is a lie and the book "Maharanas's, A Thousand Year War For Dharma" is a testament to counter all the lies. The book, "Maharanas's, A Thousand Year War For Dharma" written by Dr Omendra Ratnu proudly chronicles the history of the Sisodiya Rajputs who stood guard, lost countless generations of their sons and daughters in protecting Maa Bharati and resisted one thousand years of Ghazwa e Hind&nbs...
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The Quest for the restoration of civil disagreements from the innards of India’s Uncivil War
27Apr By Balaji Subramanian2 Comments
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The Quest for the restoration of civil disagreements from the innards of India’s Uncivil War

The book, JNU, Nationalism And India's Uncivil War written by poet and author professor Makarand R. Paranjape tells the story of the author's steely determination to overcome institutionalized intolerance of the leftists who long dominated this edifice of higher learning. Professor Paranjape in order to give context to what had transpired in 2016, for his book goes back and forth in his academic career and at the same time, he also delves into the history of Indian nationalism and some interesting facets of Communism in India and sheds unbiased light into the infamous "Tukde Tukde" incident that shook the entire nation and stood alone and firm against an ugly tribe of his academic peers and students baying for blood. This book could not have been published at a bette...
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