Bringing the Semi-Conductor to India
2021 ,
The current brouhaha over semiconductors is reminiscent of the Y2K bug at the turn of the century, when there was a fear that the bug would affect software and bring...
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The Storming of Capitol Hill: Implications for US Polity
2021 ,
The January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, the seat of the country’s legislature, by an angry mob that sought to disrupt the confirmation process of Joseph Biden’s election...
Read MoreIndia-Pakistan LoC Ceasefire Decision: A Thaw in Sight?
2021 ,
The decision by India and Pakistan to ‘cease firing along the Line of Control (LoC) and all other sectors’, with effect from the midnight of February 25, 2021, is being...
Read MoreIndia’s Vaccine Maitri with Africa
2021 ,
The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has left a mark on countries across the world. Africa is no different with the virus impacting countries across the region. African countries launched a robust...
Read MoreJihadist Radicalisation in Tamil Nadu
2021 ,
The incidence of jihadist radicalisation in India, across all its states, remains remarkably low when compared to West Asia, Africa and even Europe. Of the 177 ISIS sympathisers arrested by...
Read MoreChanging Pattern of the China-India-US Triangle
2021 ,
When the China-India-United States triangle began to form in the early years of this century, it most closely resembled a ménage á trois. All three dyads in the triangle –...
Read MoreWhatsApp’s New Privacy Policy
2021 ,
WhatsApp updated its terms of service and privacy policy in January 2021 and asked its users to compulsorily comply with it if they wished to continue using the app.1 The...
Read MoreKyrgyzstan’s Political Turmoil
2021 ,
Within a span of four months, the Kyrgyz Republic has witnessed power shifts, provisionally and definitively, among three presidents and five prime ministers. Most recently, Sadyr Japarov was sworn in...
Read MoreIndia, Russia and the Indo-Pacific: A Search for Congruence
2021 ,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s recent uncharacteristic statement of “India being an object of the Western countries persistent, aggressive and devious policy” to “engage in anti-China games by promoting Indo-Pacific...
Read MoreIndia’s ‘Vaccine Maitri’ Initiative
2021 ,
Speaking at the first UN General Assembly Session he attended in September 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that India’s foreign policy is governed by its age-old maxim of ‘’Vasudhaiva...
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