Integral to the geopolitics of place-making on the subcontinent, having acquired hegemonic categorical forms in the imperial mapping of 'India' as two opposed and self-contained communities of the 'Hindus' and the 'Muslims', authenticated by an 'unclean partition', the otherness in the case of...

India feels proud of its scientific as well as diplomatic achievements in regard to the Antarctica — the most forbidding terrain on our terra firma, a significant ‘natural laboratory’ as well as an object of innovative political experiment in international control and...

During the 200-odd years, since the circumnavigation of the Antarctica by-Captain James Cook (1772–1775), international interest in the continent has grown to such an extent that the frozen Antarctica is now at the centre of a heated political debate. The prophecy of Captain Cook that the...