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The 15th BRICS Summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa from August 22-24 concluded with the group’s expansion. Six new members – Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE – joined the existing five members – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. As much as there is excitement, particularly from China, about the
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Ukraine at the summit would have added to India’s diplomatic momentum. But it will not happen. Here is why. After a night of Russian drone attacks in Kyiv, Ukrainians, together with Indians, woke up to salute the Indian flag and celebrate our Independence Day, through performances of Indian dance and music, showing their love for
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The latest in Taliban’s brutal attacks on Afghan women’s choices and freedoms is to ban them from parks. Women in Afghanistan are already barred from studying, most teaching, working in offices, and earning any money, even farm work and weaving and embroidery. UN officials warn of a mental health crisis, with a sharp rise in
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‘Life is a balancing act’, holds good even for resolving cultural conflicts in a fast moving and migrating world. With the forces of globalization and free market economy, migration to a country with a different culture has become inevitable. This has resulted in a clash between the old and the new, Eastern and Western cultures.
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In a remarkable turnaround, Sri Lanka today appears to have overcome the worst of its political-economic crisis. Recall that a year ago, angry Sri Lankans had stormed their president’s residence dissatisfied with deteriorating economic conditions. There were huge shortages of essentials such as food, fuel and medicines. This ultimately forced then president Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s ouster.
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Democratic backsliding in many countries is a growing concern. Alarms raised by international watchdogs seem to have done nothing much to stem the slide. The world now has several basket cases including some in India’s neighborhood who still pretend to profess democracy and some frank ones like Russia who have given up on pretension. However,
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Although Modi and Xi recently met on the sidelines of the Brics summit – where the two sides reportedly agreed on expeditious disengagement from the LAC standoff – it is important to remember China has employed assertive and coercive strategies in its interactions with nations that do not align with its interests. However, a particularly
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Russia’s failed lunar mission and India’s successful soft landing on the moon shows the growing intensity of competition in outer space. The space race was an integral part of the last Cold War competition between the US and the Soviet Union. But after the end of the Cold War, the space race seemed to lose
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Ravindra N Kondekar Ravindra Kondekar, an alumnus of IIT Bombay, spent more than 27 years working in the Indian technology industry. He has worked in software development for the Department of Space and for many multinational corporations. He is also the inventor of 4 Patents granted by USPTO. Today, he works as a productivity
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While the media speculated that India was not keen on the BRICS’s expansion, India skilfully crafted a strategy to have rule-based criteria for admission into the group that would help in maintaining the nature of the group as a multilateral organisation. India does not see BRICS as an organisation opposed to the West but rather
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