Venus Upadhyaya

Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, led by TSMC and Gudeng, is aligning with U.S. policies while strengthening global supply chains. The nation is learning from Ukraine’s resilience, planning for potential conflicts, and adapting strategically. India can learn from Taiwan’s SME-driven semiconductor ecosystem and crisis-response strategies.

It starts with the story of a teen from Hunza who ran away from home to join the Dogra army in the early 20th...

I have been writing about Taiwan and the geopolitical whirlwind around it since a few years as a journalist but this is my first...

Today namda is in the process of getting a GI tag but namda can’t get its due if its marketing teams don’t understand what...

A wake-up call for policymakers and historians. Grandmother whom we called Bobo in Dogri had a massive badi (open hillside) and from the edge of...

Until the early 1800s, Bhaddu was a small kingdom only about 16 kilometres long and it was ruled by the Bhadwals. Our ancestral home breathed...

History can play a very important role as it can help us develop multiple comprehensions about an omnipresent geography. This can strengthen our strategic...

NEW DELHI: The narratives term our once peaceful homes and fertile land as ‘disputed’ because there’s an entire geopolitical agenda working to steal not only...

NEW DELHI: Reasi’s rise from an unknown, obscure landlocked location in Jammu to a geo-economic hot spot should be understood from two contexts: geo-strategic connectivity...

JAMMU: This is the first of a number of stories on unsung heroes that will be published occasionally. The writer brings through these columns...

Cantos 1On April 17, 1918 Pt. Sant Ram Dogra left the Dogra Maharaja Pratap Singh’s capital Srinagar after a long assignment. It had involved...

On the bank of the Ganga my feet soaked in its waters, After a day of going around crematoria Watching the lifeless await their turn on the pyre. In...