Atul BHARDWAJ, Author at Oriental Review

Author: Atul BHARDWAJ

Brexit and the German Rise – Should Jews worry?

12/07/2016 by Atul BHARDWAJ / 2 comments

“The frail skiff of present-day British policy is not inspiring any hope in British people, especially since the ‘symbolic voyage’ is taking place amidst the approaching economic crisis which is also tossing the American ship of state on its menacing waves.” This was Mikhail Afonin’s conclusion in Izvestiya, 31 August […]

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India and Japan must propel the Eurasian juggernaut

31/08/2014 by Atul BHARDWAJ / 14 comments

The breakup of Sino- Soviet ideological alliance was Kissinger’s unkindest cut of the Cold War. A strong socialist consolidation could have offered a vigorous challenge to transatlantic hegemony. Not only did Kissinger create schisms within the communist ranks, he also made sure that India and Japan, the Asian giants, disenchanted […]

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White Lama & ‘Tibet Land’

02/09/2013 by Atul BHARDWAJ / 2 comments

ORIENTAL REVIEW continues to reveal unknown facts about the American involvement in Tibet and the British role in achieving it. We published the previous chapter of the research titled ‘Arms and the Elephant‘ on August 12, 2013. IN 1947, Arthur Hopkinson was India’s political officer in Sikkim. He was a […]

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Arms and the Elephant

12/08/2013 by Atul BHARDWAJ / 1 comment

Archival material of the 1940s shows that the British supplied arms to Tibet and a movie projector to the Dalai Lama and even made vain attempts to send an elephant to him. EDMOND CANDLER’s book The Unveiling of Lhasa(1905) had described Britain’s relationship with Tibet as something akin to “the […]

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“Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) Or “Instigate to Intervene” (I2I)

12/04/2013 by Atul BHARDWAJ / 1 comment

American democracy appears to be in jeopardy. Irrespective of the political dispensation at the White House, the policy of promoting proxy wars and covert military operations across the globe continues to mutate. Any nation that decides to exercise its sovereign right to protect its citizens from armed insurgents incurs Washington’s […]

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