AS BANGLADESH WELCOMES TARIQUE RAHMAN

AS BANGLADESH WELCOMES TARIQUE RAHMAN

AS BANGLADESH WELCOMES TARIQUE RAHMAN From welcoming their new nation’s founding leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, on January 10, 1972, to Tarique Rahman this week on December 25, almost 55 years apart, the people of Bangladesh have seen their history change more often...
OF “OPEN SECRETS” & NORTH-SOUTH SEALANE

OF “OPEN SECRETS” & NORTH-SOUTH SEALANE

OF “OPEN SECRETS” & NORTH-SOUTH SEALANE We are left to guess about the “open secret” of what transpired at the 23rd India-Russia summit, which took place in New Delhi on December 4-5, but it is not difficult to do so. Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov has...
IS TRUMP PUSHING ASIA CLOSER TO CHINA?

IS TRUMP PUSHING ASIA CLOSER TO CHINA?

IS TRUMP PUSHING ASIA CLOSER TO CHINA? Is United States President Donald Trump, stuck in the snows of Europe in trying to bring peace to Ukraine, missing out in Asia, where his perceived principal adversary, China, is rising and consolidating? Questions are being...
SOLIDARITY IN SKY

SOLIDARITY IN SKY

SOLIDARITY IN SKY Divided at the Partition that accompanied their nations’ independence, the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) have fought each other in all conflicts from 1947 to date. Available data on casualties are only broad estimates since...
Mamdani, Ugandan Indians and Vasanti Makwana

Mamdani, Ugandan Indians and Vasanti Makwana

Mamdani, Ugandan Indians and Vasanti Makwana Africa and its Gujarat links figured prominently in Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York. His middle name, ‘Kwame’, was given by his father as a tribute to Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah. Next was Uganda, where Zohran was born...