Ajay Kamalakaran

A dispatch from China’s Gansu province

Hazrat Inayat Khan moved to Moscow in October 1913 and spent an eventful seven months in the city, attaining celebrity status. He was one of the earliest proponents of Indian culture in Russia

The legendary author from Kyrgyzstan wrote both in Russian and his local language

Sri Sri (Srirangam Srinivasa Rao) loved the Russia of Lenin and Mayakovsky. The Telugu poet’s work also found its to way to prestigious Soviet publications

While Russia’s State Museum of Oriental Art displays its impressive collection of Baburnama folios from the 1590s, Uzbekistan is happy to claim the legacy of the founder of the Mughal Empire

Giants of Hindi literature such as Munshi Premchand, Rajendra Yadav and Banarasidas Chaturvedi were enamoured of the works of the Russian playwright and short-story writer

New Delhi is a neutral player and can help ease the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh

Soviet artist Semyon Chuikov visited India twice in the 1950s and fell in love with the people of the country. He tried to depict what he called the “poetic, beautiful and noble soul” of the Indian people in his paintings

During their famous Altai-Himalaya expedition nearly 100 years ago, the mystical Russian family spent a few months in the then princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. The suspicious British government tried to play spoilsport

China has a 4209-km long border with Russia, a significant part of which is on the Amur and Ussuri rivers