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Book Review | Two Marginalised Communist Heroes

Book Review | Two Marginalised Communist Heroes

Yet remarkable and compelling as their stories may be, there is an unsteadiness to this juxtaposition, an awkwardness of...

19 April 2025 11:56 AM

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | After US, UK, EU; it’s time for India FTA with Russia

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | After US, UK, EU; it’s time for India FTA...

Despite this, however, at the height of the Cold War, the United States, in a bid to drive a wedge between its main...

27 March 2025 6:28 PM

In this photo provided by Chad Fish, the remnants of a large balloon drift above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it, Feb. 4, 2023. The downing of the suspected Chinese spy balloon by a missile from an F-22 fighter jet created a spectacle over one of the states tourism hubs and drew crowds reacting with a mixture of bewildered gazing, distress and cheering. (Photo: AP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Chinaâ€™s mystery balloons: Why was West...

The weeks-long recent drama over the mysterious Chinese balloons that were seen for several days floating over America,...

22 Feb 2023 6:35 PM

File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo:PTI)

Pavan K Varma | Successors & rising stars: Cabinet rejig to reveal all

When I was posted in our embassy in Moscow in the era of the Soviet Union, one of the key preoccupations of diplomats...

7 Jan 2023 6:40 PM

Mikhail Gorbachev. (Photo: AP)

P.S. Raghavan | The man who brought down the Iron Curtain

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has frequently been quoted as saying that the breakup of the Soviet Union was...

1 Sept 2022 6:33 PM

Former US President George Bush meets with Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who stepped down in 1991 as the Soviet Union collapsed during Bushs presidency, in Moscow on September 15, 2003. Russian news agencies are reporting that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91. The Tass, RIA Novosti and Interfax news agencies cited the Central Clinical Hospital. (Image: AP/PTI)

Mikhail Gorbachev, who steered Soviet breakup, dead at 91

MOSCOW: Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalise the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the...

31 Aug 2022 3:31 PM

Can a risk-averse India be a $5 trillion economy?

Can a risk-averse India be a $5 trillion economy?

The first, and this may surprise some readers, is the former Soviet Union.

21 Sept 2019 9:21 PM