Venus Upadhyaya, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

Taiwan should take note of India becoming the fourth largest global economy

India offers an alternative to the US and China’s competitive world order. Taipei: India officially overtook Japan to become the fourth largest global economy at...

Ahead of US-India Trade Negotiations: Some Reflections on Trump’s Statements on the Recent India-Pakistan Crisis!

As a crisis unfolded between India and Pakistan after the April 22 Pahalgam attack that killed 26 Hindu tourists, US President Donald Trump made...

Underground water table in the Indus River basin and the case of community bunkers on the border

In that context it’s time to also conduct an audit of the thousands of community and family bunkers India built on its disputed border...

With so many Indonesians, Vietnamese and Filipinos inside Taiwan, where do Indians fit in?

The young demographic trends of a democratic India with a burgeoning economy is surely a very attractive resource for aging Taiwan as compared to...

Heightened attacks in Jammu region should make us relook at Indus Water Treaty

To have a fresh understanding of the tensions in our Jammu and Kashmir border areas, particularly the recent escalation in attacks in Jammu region,...

In a distant Taiwanese city, discovery of a writer & a new philosophical perspective

Today’s wondrous Lyu-chuan was once extremely polluted and a plan was made to intercept upstream flow of the canal to Zhonghua water treatment plant,...

Taiwanese TSMC’s $100bn semiconductor investment in the US bespeaks of a resilient ecosystem

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.

A Hunza Warrior in Dogra Army and a Rare Royal Clan of Shivaliks

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

An Indian’s first impressions of Taiwan

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

Kashmiri Woollen Rug, Desi Chai and the Warmth of Gulab Singh’s City

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...

Ignored Living Heritage of Jammu Shivaliks

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...

Reclaiming lost heritage: The Continuous history of a Dogra household and village

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...

Dogra Palaces, Jammu’s Geography and the Lost Heritage of Warrior Traditions

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

River trails, tall grass of the border and the Machedi attack

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...

Reasi tensions have a geo-economic context

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...

How a man from Jammu’s Bhaderwah turns childhood trauma into a lifelong mission

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

Pandit Sant Ram Dogra of Kashmir

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...

Flames of passage

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...

Xi sensing an opportunity for China in Trump-Musk clash

Taiwan should take note of India becoming the fourth largest global economy

Bengal BJP unit lags in organisational polls

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