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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

So technically these were volunteers who relinquished their citizenship and transferred their allegiance to ISIS. So now technically they are citizens of a state that has been dissolved by conquest, whose present leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi is on the run and rumours are rife that he faced a bloody coup last month. To say… Read more

President Trump declared on his Twitter handle that some 1000 ISIS fighters were held in temporary camps in Syria and if the EU do not soon take custody of these and process them under law, he would perforce have to leave loose. Then we were taken up with the case of one UK origin woman… Read more

The evil of statecraft is how by design it allocates to itself the supreme power of life and death over an idea. To shore up such an idea, the State can invest in networks, institutions and can be even at odds with its stated goals, making enemies of its own people. In that sense, the… Read more

While the options of another surgical strike or even a limited cross border strike with missiles on major terror camps like Muridke are on the table, Indian Executive must weigh their impact against their fall out. Right now the US backs us, but Saudi Arabia from whom we import most of our oil just extended… Read more

Post Pulwama, it appears that most military and strategic thinkers, mostly a community of veterans, have swung around to this common ground that we have reached a critical situation in the context of how we operated on ground. Significantly whether it is former Army Chiefs, Corps Commanders and Army Commanders, or veterans who did short… Read more