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Category: South Asia

Not Perpetual Enemies…

Once, former British Prime Minister Henry John Temple (also known as Lord Palmerston or 3rd Viscount Palmerston; October 20, 1784 – October 18, 1865) famously said: “There are no eternal […]

A Bengali Émigré Who Disappeared In USSR

“দুয়ার এঁটে ঘুমিয়ে আছে পাড়াকেবল শুনি রাতের কড়ানাড়া‘অবনী বাড়ি আছো?’” – শক্তি চট্টোপাধ্যায় In an October night, 1937, the Soviet Secret Police knocked on the door of a residence in […]

The Rasht-Astara Railway Project: A Game Changer

Russia and Iran have a strategic partnership marked by cooperation in areas, such as defence and economic cooperation, particularly since the signing of a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty in January […]

‘Pentagon Controlling Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal’

John Chris Kiriakou, an American whistleblower, author, journalist and former Operations Officer of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Centre, has stunned the international community by claiming that General Pervez Musharraf (August 11, […]

‘UN Reflects Realities Of 1945, Not 2025’

Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, the External Affairs Minister of India, has claimed that the United Nations (UN) would gradually lose its relevance, as well as credibility; if it fails to understand […]

Policing The Fall Of Empire

British Colonialism, The Boomerang Effect & A Flamboyant PolicemanBy Stuart Logie “It should never be forgotten that colonisation had a considerable boomerang effect on the mechanisms of power in the […]