Media and India-China Relations: Critiquing the Contents and the Intent

Media is a double edged sword. To an extent, it can make or mar relationships between two countries, particularly if the two share the shibboleth of historical animus and have exhibited a definitive trust deficit in the past. It would be naïve to expect a news report, an editorial piece or an op-ed article to read like a press hand out or a banquet speech interspersed with bonhomie and pious platitude, but an adverse or a critical report or a comment in the media on the sensitive and complex Indo-China relations has all the potential to harden people’s perception, which in turn can tell up further on the relationship between the two countries. Media can also dispel many a common myths and negative perceptions and be the ultimate catalyst to promote better understanding and cooperation. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.340589

Design and Modeling of Hysteresis Motor with High Temperature Superconducting Material in the Rotor using Finite Element Method

In this paper, a 2-pole, 50 Hz high temperature superconducting hysteresis motor with simplest construction has been numerically simulated using finite element method for its performance calculation. In this high temperature superconducting hysteresis motor, conventional stator is used and the rotor is made up of high temperature superconducting material which has the ability to trap the magnetic field as high as possible and also carries greater current densities at higher magnetic fields. Since huge investments and time are required for the practical experiments for this work, numerical simulation are preferred. The performance parameters are compared with that of the conventional hysteresis motor in which ferro-magnetic material is used as a rotor. All of these calculations are done using MATLAB based program developed in-house and PDE based module of COMSOL Multiphysics software with proper Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions.  The simulation result shows a good agreement with the experimental results. Keywords: High temperature superconductor (HTS), Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide (YBCO), Finite element method (FEM), Partial differential equation (PDE), COMSOL Multiphysics

India-China relations : a new paradigm

Abstract: "India-China relations may not be ideal in the narrative of a bilateral relationship between the countries. But given the complexity of the engagement and interaction between the two countries and taking into account the divergent political systems, the unresolved territorial issues, compulsions of geopolitics, the quest for resources and markets, and aspirations of the two countries for global influence and power, the relations between the two countries are certainly a matter of reassurance and optimism. In spite of the occasional hiccups, the two countries have shown a certain degree of resilience and have learnt to live together"

The US factor in Sino-Indian relations : India's fine balancing

"The monograph aims to determine the extent to which the US is a factor as an intervening variable in the complex India-China relations. The intervening variable works both as determinant and consequent of the triangular relations. The study attempts to probe the research question as to how China perceives U.S. policy towards India in particular, and whether growing Indo-US ties can affect China’s security interest negatively. Related to this research question is how India is trying to calibrate its relationship with both USA and China, and how far India has been successful in this endeavour in the context of strategic distrust and security dilemma. It endorses the assertion that “skillful maneuvering and manipulating of great power alignment can add to a country’s existing diplomatic capital in more practical terms.”1As the full import of the US factor in Sino-Indian relations can only be grasped in the context of Indo-US relations and Sino-Indian relations, it is imperative that these two aspects are put in perspective, while elucidating the US factor in India-China relations.