Gathering Of The Clouds!
Ensuing clashes around the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the occupation of disputed Nagorno-Karabakh Region may well turn to a full-scale War! Armenia has threatened to use nuclear weapons, […]
Getting On One’s Nerves
It is often mentioned in a bantering fashion that the Leaders in Opposition are either arrested or killed in Russia. Incumbent Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny made such a comment on […]
On A Pilgrimage, 90 Years Ago
He had described, in his letters written from Moscow, his visit to the erstwhile Soviet Union as a ‘Pilgrimage’… Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861 – August 7, 1941) – the […]
The Supreme Secret!
The Ramenki District is located in the South-Western part of the Russian Capital of Moscow. There is a City, which was built under the ground in this area. However, the […]
Brighter Than A Million?
Sixteen years after the dropping of an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by the US, the erstwhile Soviet Union performed testing exercise of […]
An Other Thought!
“Did you provoke the people to destroy the temple in Jerusalem?” asks the Judge. The 27-year-old accused – in dirty clothes, handcuffed, injured and head almost covered with a bandage […]
Drawing A Balance!
Indian External Affairs Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has said that although the era of Non-Aligned Policies is over, the ideology of diplomatic independence that has been embedded in it is […]
A Purely Political Debate
What did Vladimir (Ilyich Ulyanov) Lenin think of Joseph Stalin? This is basically a Political Debate of the 20th Century, which still seems to be quite relevant… When he was […]
Penned Down!
Vasily Grossman, Andrei Platonov and Boris Pilnyak... Joseph Stalin's authoritarian rule had failed to suppress the voices of these three men o' letters! Their pens rightly proved to be mightier than the sword.
