Opinions and Perspectives. For, by, and of the youth.
The Malabar exercise 2020 which was held in November last year was a joint Naval exercise between India, Japan, Australia and the United States. The first exercise in 1992 was a bilateral exercise between India and the US, and Japan joined forces in 2015. However, after its separation in 2007, this was the first time …
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In a virtually connected environment like ours, we are abreast with happenings all across the world. The media has kept us all informed about everything- from the most to the least known parts of the globe. Yet, there are incidents in places which get hidden away due to their apparent “insignificance”. The story of Balochistan …
We’ve all heard of Muammar Al-Gaddafi or Col. Gaddafi, who ruled over Libya for more than forty years. With admiration for his role model- Gamal Abdel Nasser- and an enthusiasm to change things for the better, Gaddafi came to power in 1969 at the age of 27. His dictatorship, widely quoted as “quixotic and brutal”, …
We all are familiar with the ‘Indian Freedom Struggle’- A long drawn struggle for India’s independence from the British rule. The British, initially, sailed to India as traders as The East India Company. Soon, the greed for power and money drove them to gain control as they monopolised their trade and set their rule in …
When we think of the word pirate, we often paint an image of a long haired, kohl-eyed Captain Jacksparrow. We imagine pirates to be a group of filthy people with knives and daggers who live a life of crime at sea. Pirates almost seem like fictional characters to us who existed once upon a time. …
“Al Qaeda’s ideas have spread throughout the Islamic world, and its spiritual father, Azzam, still inspires fanatics and killers every day.” – Bruce Riedel Abdullah Yusuf Azzam isn’t exactly a household name, in fact he is barely known as compared to Bin Laden. However he, in reality, is the ‘Father of Global Jihad’. Palestinian by …
“The atomic bomb was not, in fact, initially brought to President Truman’s attention because of its relationship to the war against Japan, but because of its likely impact on diplomacy” – Gar Alperovitz, Historian. On August 6, 1945, The United States dropped a 16 kiloton Uranium atomic bomb called “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan. This …