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Asia’s Restless Generation
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From India to Indonesia and Vietnam, Gen Z is testing the limits of power, accountability and public dissent.
The Jantar-Mantar agitation in New Delhi between June and July 2026 was...
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ASEAN Out, Brazil In
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India’s decision to pull out of the inaugural FIFA ASEAN Cup for a high-profile friendly with Brazil sends the wrong signal at a time when its Act East policy demands...
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Reviving Prambanan, Renewing Ties
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The restoration of Indonesia’s Prambanan temple signals a new phase in India’s Act East policy, with heritage conservation as an instrument of diplomacy.
Last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and...
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Bali: Dharma’s Last Fortress
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From protecting Java’s fleeing Hindu-Buddhists to resisting pressures to abandon its own faith, Bali’s story is one of civilisation’s most remarkable acts of endurance.
The last article in this column...
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Bali: Anchor of Javanese Inheritance
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As Majapahit crumbled and Islam reshaped the archipelago, Bali emerged as the unlikely custodian of Java’s classical inheritance.
The last article in this column discussed how Java held a uniquely...
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Java, Saviour of Indic Indonesia
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From Majapahit to Pancasila, Java has repeatedly defended Indonesia’s plural ethos
The last article discussed the conditions, apparently threatening the survival of the Indic thread of Indonesia’s culture, responding to...
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Indonesia’s Indic DNA Needs Protection
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Beneath the world’s largest Muslim democracy lies an older Indic inheritance now under strain from deepening Arabisation.
In last two articles we discussed the idea of Indosphere and the challenges...
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Indosphere Under Threat: Why and How
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Under China’s expanding shadow, the once-dominant Indosphere faces slow erosion born as much of external pressure as of India’s own long neglect.
The term Indosphere, post its coinage around eight...
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Indosphere: What Indians Should Know?
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It was seen in the last article as to how the Southeast Asian region or its parts were perceived as ‘further’ or ‘farther’ or ‘greater’ India by various European scholars...
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India’s Forgotten Civilisational Map
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Long before modern geopolitics, scholars and travellers recognised a vast cultural world stretching from India to Southeast Asia.
Prambanan Temple, Java
The impact of Indic civilisation, radiating far beyond the...
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A Civilisation of Shared Gods
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Across Southeast Asia, Hinduism and Buddhism did not clash for supremacy but intertwined across empires and scriptures to forge a uniquely unified civilisational ethos.
Troluwan: Ruins of Majapahit Kingdom.
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The Sinic–Islamic Alliance: A Civilisational March Through History
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From Malacca to Bangladesh, a Sinic–Islamic alignment forged over centuries now reasserts itself with India squarely in its path.
American political scientist Samuel Huntington, in his 1996 book had theorized...
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