The book is an epic work of forty chapters each with its own quintessence. ‘The Ghost of Chamdo’, ‘March Winds’, ‘Wind and Wildfire’, ‘Memory Songs of Lhasa’, ‘Four Rivers Six Ranges’, ‘Silent Struggle’ and many more are worthy of mention.
The central argument that Professor Madhav Das Nalapat makes in his timely book is that the new Cold War, which he terms as Cold War 2.0 is different from the earlier Cold War and that it would be a mistake to assume that the Soviet Union has been replaced with the Russian Federation.
As foreign policy cum security experts, academicians and politicians try to understand the current international order and what shape it may take, Sanjaya Baru and Rahul Sharma have brought together 19 essays in their first edition (2021) to coincide with the 50th anniversary of US President Nixon’s historic visit to China in 1971.
We are living in the post-pandemic era having fresh memories of evacuation, lockdown, information, and disinformation—overall a situation of panic.
The Ramayana and the Mahabharata are not just two great epics but also great treasures of our civilizational heritage that have inspired generations over many centuries.
Prasad adopts an orthodox Eurocentric framing of the dawn of enlightenment and the coming of the age of rationality wherein he treats it as an endogenous phenomenon starting from the Renaissance down to the Industrial Revolution.