'On October 12-13, he started shivering from fear in his tent.''That was the time he wrote a letter to my mother to conduct Ganeshji's Atharvashirsha.''The moment he finished writing that letter,......
'The war of 1962 exposed the hollow intellectual foundations of Nehruvian foreign policy, especially vis-à-vis China and that is why it was such a shock.' IMAGE: Then prime minister......
'Magnanimity and appeasement have no place in the world of realpolitik as India has learned the hard way,' notes Vivek Gumaste in the first of a two-part column. IMAGE: An Indian Army convoy on......
Major General Sujan Singh Uban, a legendary veteran of the Second World War, was a natural choice to raise, train and command the Special Frontier Force and mould them into a well oiled fighting......
'China need not worry about a 'resurgent India'.''It's not going to happen.'Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com On May 9, 2006, Business Standard......
The year 2017 could be the third year of a double-digit growth in arrivals from China after years of low single-digit growth Tensions between India and China escalate on and off. But the number of......
The Indo-Chinese relationship remains on thin ice, but the markets have recovered on account of positive developments elsewhere, says Devangshu Datta. In the 1960s, Nehru and Zhou En Lai......
It has been a prickly year for China-India ties with the Arunachal Pradesh boundary dispute poisoning bilateral rhetoric. In Copenhagen, Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai is back in vogue with the two sides......
Budget 2008 will be here in two weeks and pink newspapers and news channels are looking forward in anticipation of-- higher profits from more ads. It is likely that the Budget this year, in a......
Earlier this month I formed part of a small group of Indian economists invited to a workshop in Beijing comparing the economies of India and China. The conference was organised by the......
'J P Dutta's clownish treatment of history and hard-earned triumph demeans the efforts and sacrifices of real-life martyrs and bravehearts with its pompous ideas of valour, clunky writing and a......