India has 2547 men and women peacekeepers in South Sudan. The world’s largest democracy is helping the world’s newest country on a fragile path of peace. While they provide security and reach out to civilians to get their lives back on track, India also marked the Republic in the 150th year birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi whose message of peace and non-violence is as relevant now as ever before. Indians in UN House, Juba and in the two battalions – INDBATT I & II in Bor, Malakal and other bases celebrated the year by shaking a leg.
Disparagement humor is a built and financed weapon. It boxes a people with a label, hardens the label into stigma, and makes the sacred laughable until a civilization forgets why it was worth saving. Rome never learned this lesson. However, India needs to. Ask - Who is paying for the laughter?
India's exam crisis is real. NEET leaked. JEE was hacked. CBSE's answer sheets were blurred. But the movement built on student anger arrived too organized, scaled too fast, and demands regime change — not reform. A sixty-year-old doctrine explains exactly what is happening.
The post-Cold War order is fading, but the next world order has yet to emerge. As America, China, Europe, and Russia reposition for an uncertain future, old assumptions are collapsing. This is the story of borrowed power, strategic decline, rising rivals, and a world caught between eras.
For eighty years, the cross and the agency have traveled together. Missionaries mapped territories, pacified populations, and laundered political operations as charity. When India asks where was the money used, Washington sends a Secretary of State to make the question stop.
