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In-Vogue Trudeau's Visit to India

Whispers of Khalistan? Trudeau’s visit to India can reopen old wounds by Aalap Trivedi Air India 182 took off from Montreal to go to Bombay via London and Delhi. Just off the coast of Ireland, a bomb on board exploded and killed 329 people. The main suspects for the bombing were Sikh separatists “Babbar Khalsa”. The date was 23 June 1985. More than three decades later, this incident still haunts people from both nations. They have started to talk about it again(in whispers) as the charismatic, young Canadian PM, Trudeau visited India. Not a lot can go wrong for you if you're Canada. It is one of the few countries in the world which is universally liked. On closer inspection though, it is clear that it has had some trouble with its largest Indian diaspora i.e. the Sikhs. As with the people, the roots of the problem lay in India. “Operation Blue Star” was something I’d heard a lot of, growing up as a 90s kid. It was something unprecedented in India’s history and g...
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Trouble in Paradise

Trouble in paradise By Aalap Trivedi Why does the emergency declared in Maldives mean so much to India? Maldives has been making the headlines for all the wrong reasons across all the news channels this month. Located south of the Lakshadweep islands, for India this is worrying. An unstable Maldives is a ticking time-bomb in the Indian Ocean. How can a nation of 26 atolls have the potential to destabilise the Indian Ocean? The History India was one of the first countries to recognise Maldives after it gained independence from the British. Since then India and Maldives have built upon those ties economically, culturally and militarily. Maldives acts to counter the rise of Sri Lankan dominance in the region just south of India in the Indian Ocean. This made Maldives an attractive proposition for India. Indian Ocean is home to one of the most navigated shipping routes. This is due to fact that the energy need of all the Asian economic powerhouses is shipped along these rout...
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India-Israel and their Diplomatic Relations

India-Israel Diplomacy  by Aalap Trivedi Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi broke protocol to visit his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu at the airport in New Delhi in January 2018. They hugged and lifted their joined hands in the air showing solidarity. India has come far from its early stance in regards to Israel, but is this just a marriage of convenience or a sign of a tectonic shift in New Delhi’s foreign policy. The History People of both these countries have their own rich, vivid and ancient culture, albeit one which didn't see a lot of mixture between the two. Some historical evidence suggests that unlike any other place they went, the small number of Jewish refugees who came to the ancient Indian shores, were historically faced with no oppression in India. But things changed when Israel became a sovereign country. Israel gained independence from the British in 1948 and immediately captured the Arab Palestinian lands they used to share, making...
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