by Mahendra Ved | Jan 11, 2026 | Blogs
A SAGA OF ‘OLYMPIAN’ RISE AND FALL My first impression of SURESH KALMADI was when, as President of the Indian Youth Congress (Socialist), he led a protest demonstration of no more than a dozen party workers. He led, also held the party banner, and there were more...
by Mahendra Ved | Dec 29, 2025 | Blogs
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...
by Mahendra Ved | Dec 23, 2025 | Blogs
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...
by Mahendra Ved | Dec 15, 2025 | Blogs
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...
by Mahendra Ved | Dec 2, 2025 | Diaspora
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...
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