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A Tale of Two Titans: My Encounters with Amitav Ghosh and Vikram Seth

Guwahati, Aug. 30 -- If I am asked who my favorite modern Indian writer in English is, I would unhesitatingly say that it is Amitav Ghosh. Ghosh's The Circle of Reason and The Shadow Lines made a deep... Read More


Line of Amity: How a New Approach to India-China Border Could Usher in Peace

Guwahati, Aug. 23 -- When a friend called me rather late on August 22, 2025, to inform me that the latest dialogue between India and China "has decided to resolve the border through a piece-meal appro... Read More


India-China-Bhutan Dynamics: A Geopolitical Analysis

Guwahati, July 28 -- "I cycle every night from Paro to Thimphu. I find it meditative." I was sitting across the Fourth King (K4) of Bhutan, listening in awe as the Druk Gyalpo or the "Dragon King" of ... Read More


Responsibility Must Be Fixed for Pahalgam

Guwahati, July 18 -- It was the year 1956. Lal Bahadur Shastri, who later became India's Prime Minister, was then the Minister of Railways in the Jawaharlal Nehru ministry. Two significant train acci... Read More


Looking back on Pahalgam and Op Sindoor

Guwahati, July 7 -- The failed state of Pakistan and its terror surrogates have very limited agendas. "Bleeding India with a thousand cuts" is perhaps one of the foremost of objectives. The attack on ... Read More