Category: Politics

India wants to do business with Russia despite sanctions

Vladimir Putin, Narendra Modic Russia is India’s most important arms supplier. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaffirmed his “special strategic partnership” with Vladimir Putin. (Photo: imago images/Hindustan Times) Bangkok While Western companies gave Russian oil a wide berth given the

Putin’s friends in New Delhi

VMuch has been written and spoken about the role India must play in an increasingly Chinese-dominated Asia. As the only country in the region, the second most populous country in the world is believed to be able to fight the

PEN center honors Indian activists

Meena Kandasamy receives the Hermann Kesten Prize from the German PEN Center. Born in 1984, the Indian feminist writer and activist campaigns for the rights of Dalits, the lowest ranking in India’s caste system. He belongs to the Tamil people,