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Just because we have a World Cup winning captain as PM and he appeared more statesman like, India appears to have lost the diplomatic victory in this post Pulwama escalation. For Imran offered peace, not once but twice, offered to assist India in investigating Pulwama, and also has offered to return the downed IAF pilot,… Read more

No one can Predict the way events will unfurl. For fog of war is something known to all battle planners, that no plan survives contact! I said categorically that we have to be prepared for all contingencies because, after setting the ball rolling with a new paradigm shift in responses by striking deep in the… Read more

The Modi government always has been strident and muscular about its conduct of policy, or implementation of aim, and hence it was not surprising that we did not have to wait that long for a reaction to the blowing up of 44 policemen in a CRPF convoy. May be it is too early, but India’s… Read more

To play or not to play is not a question for a sportsperson, for no player worth his or her salt will venture to say we shall avoid a game. Rather sportspersons would love a game fair and square, so that they can savour the moments long after they have come and gone, especially those… Read more

It is fascinating to see how today we consume information, primarily to bolster our prejudices. We actually seem to count our blessings and our biases based on not the story around, but the one we find closest to our point of view. It is literally plethora of pious sentiments playing on the landscape of what… Read more

The options before the India of 21st century were clearly what tools it needed to convert itself from a colonial legacy state into a clear headed democratic nation in pursuit of progress and prosperity for its citizens. In that direction the last seven decades have seen progress in many spheres and near misses in some,… Read more