The way Indian internal security has been strained due to internal conflicts, sponsored and sustained by outside forces, there is a need to rethink effective steps to be taken. Violent agitations planned and organised...
The Amarnath Temple is one of the most sacred Hindu shrines located at an altitude of 3,888 m in the Pir Panjal Ranges of the mighty Himalayas in Jammu and Kashmir. It is mentioned...
Schloss Elmau, a grand four-storey national monument built in 1916 by Johannes Muller and architect Carl Sattler at Krun town, Bavaria Alps in southern Germany, is the venue of the 48th G7 Summit from...
Frontier Gandhi Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan was born in Utmanzai, a village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), located in the north-western mountainous region of Pakistan. This province shares a border with Afghanistan in the west...
Imperial Hangover
Unlike the popular myth Europe was never a leading example of democracy; it consisted of large number of monarchies like Sweden, Denmark, Britain which totalled to 12 at the last count. It’s home...
Krishnadeva Raya was the greatest ruler of South India in the first quarter of the 16th century. He consolidated his Vijayanagar empire by bringing several feudatories in the central provinces under his firm control....
Balochistan is one of the four constituents of Pakistan, our immediate western neighbour. Punjab, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are the other three. Balochistan, located in the southwestern region, is the largest in terms of...
Magadha King Bimbisar (543 BC-491 BC) was a great friend of Gautam Buddha. He belonged to the Haryanaka dynasty of the ancient kingdom and ruled eastern India, including the modern-day Bihar and Bengal. His capital was...
South Asia, as a geographical entity, includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Indian Ocean island nation—Mauritius. It is hemmed in between the two troublesome regions of the world. Middle East...
Raja Raja Chola I was the greatest king of the Chola empire in southern India. The empire saw tremendous growth during his rule from 985 AD to 1014 AD. He conquered the kingdoms of southern India,...
From the physical brute force and direct contact, warfare has sailed through the indirect contact with physical military might to No Contact Warfare by Irregular Soldiers to the warfare with Invisible Weapons. In fact,...
The Russian-Ukraine war has given a wrong idea of future wars. Arguably, a distinction has to be made between two ‘Militarily Equal’ belligerents and ‘Militarily Unequal’ opponents. Imagine, if Ukraine had nuclear weapons, would...
Mihir Bhoj of the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty was India’s outstanding political figure in the ninth century. He is ranked with Dhruva Dharavarsha and Dharmapala as a great general and empire builder. Mihir Bhoj succeeded his...