Manipur Violence:All you need to Know about the SoO PACT
Suspension of Operations (SoO) pact Suspension of Operations (SoO) pact is a tripartite agreement signed between the Centre , Manipur government and 25 Kuki militant groups operating in the northeastern states of Manipur and Nagaland with the primary objective of initiating a peace dialogue. Under the agreement, the Kuki militant groups agreed to stop carrying […]
Was the Cold War purely an Ideological Warfare?
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.” Winston Churchill made this famous statement about the situation prevailing in the Euro-Asian region during the Cold War. The term Cold War was coined by Bernard Baruch however Walter Lipman popularized it through a series of articles. […]
A Dual Tale of Cultural Resilience & Amalgamation: The Goan Experience of Cultural Colonialism
In Nicholas B. Dirks’s words, Colonial conquest was not just the result of the power of superior arms, military organisation, political power or economic wealth as important as these things were. Colonialism was made possible and then sustained and strengthened as much by cultural technologies of rule as it was by the more obvious and […]
The Man Who Cracked the Code: James Prinsep and the Ancient Scripts
Imagine a man whose ancestors, his father and grandfather, have lived in a country for centuries, yet he remains oblivious to the rich past buried beneath the soil of his homeland. He is unaware of his historical legacy or the political heritage that shaped his land. When invaders from foreign lands arrive and tell him […]