Cold War

India's amnesia on Bandung conference is a symptom of what ails our foreign policy

May 15, 2025 3:27 pm

India can and must reclaim the distinctive voice that once commanded attention in global forums, not through volume or verbosity, but through the moral clarity and consistency of its positions

Norway reactivates Cold War bunkers amid rising tensions with Russia

March 31, 2025 12:54 pm

At the Cold War’s peak, Norway built around 3,000 underground facilities, many later decommissioned.

The Jaishankar-Modi doctrine: Can India balance its foreign relations in a Cold War 2.0?

December 05, 2024 12:00 pm

The key test for India's 'mult-alignment' approach is whether it is using its newfound elbow room to pursue naked interest, or whether there is what the doctrine says there should be — a moral stance as well as a rational one. When pressed, can Indian diplomats and other spokespersons present a narrative that reflects India’s values as much as it reflects India’s interests?

How Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space in 1963

June 19, 2024 5:12 pm

Valentina Tereshkova ventured into space at a time when the Cold War was fueling the Space Race between the US and the USSR. NASA did not allow women astronauts back then, leading the Soviets to take a small step forward.

Football, Germany’s antidote through World Wars and Cold War, tasked with uniting the nation at Euro 2024

June 14, 2024 5:58 pm

Throughout the 20th century, the country went through a lot of strife and upheaval, but the people's game was an antidote to survive the tough times, a football historian recounts.

Europeans are worried about World War III. They are not paranoid

June 01, 2024 9:51 am

The raging wars and rising tensions in different parts of the world, from the Middle East to Europe to the Western Pacific, call for urgent attention because the world cannot afford another Cold War, much less a world war

Tension in Indo-Pacific and Russia-Ukraine conflict are symptoms of an emerging global disorder

March 25, 2023 9:07 am

Ram Madhav writes: India is committed to rejecting the authoritarian and coercive world order that China promotes

Sixty years on, revisiting the Cuban missile crisis, recently invoked by Biden

October 19, 2022 8:35 pm

The Cuban missile crisis was resolved and disaster narrowly averted thanks to timely negotiations between Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev and US President John F Kennedy. Here is what happened.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Across world, foundational ideas of major political systems are under challenge

October 10, 2022 1:22 pm

The foundational frameworks iconically represented by Madison, Mao, Maududi and Mandela are floundering.

More than any time in the past, we may be in for a high-order hegemonic contest in Asia

September 02, 2022 9:01 am

Raj Shukla writes: Enhance deterrence in the traditional and emerging domains and transit rapidly from a military focussed on India’s defence to one that is also sophisticated enough to sustain its rise

Thousands bid farewell to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union

September 04, 2022 4:21 pm

Berlin Wall now and then: These photos show city's division during Cold War

November 09, 2019 10:36 am

This combination of photos shows a section of the Berlin Wall where it divided the city during the Cold War and the same location.