The Arctic: The Next Frontier in India-Russia Relations
... Home in the Vedas (1903), freedom fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak argued that the ancestors of India’s ancient Vedic civilisation lived in the Arctic. Could you please comment on the Third Pole policy and what it means for India? Alexandr Sergunin: ‘Three Poles of the Cold’: Myth or Reality? In India, the Himalayas are generally seen as the ‘Third Pole’, apart from the Arctic and the Antarctica. In that sense, experts have described India as a ‘Tri-Polar’ nation. There are critical linkages ...