All Posts

One of the failure of successive governments is to reform the military industrial complex that has left India as a servile importer of weaponry and substandard producer of munitions and systems. While the new DPP 2016 allows for more private participation, there is a need to understand how if India had not amended its telecom Read more

The controversy apparently is now self sustaining, for a series of news paper articles have emerged from The Hindu as a mainstream newspaper, besides articles by The Wire and other web based media. Col Ajai Shukla (Retd)  was along with Mr Rahul Gandhi, the lone rangers of Rafale Deal, and many imputed that he was Read more

I was surprised to see how media was reacting to the use of NSA on some cow heisting folk in MP, and how they were skinning the calf Mr Rahul Gandhi along with the bull Mr Kamal Nath, accusing them of betraying the mandate and ideology of their political moorings. These folk could not be Read more

Just imagine if CM West Bengal has been provoked with a CBI raid on her DGP by UPA government who would have sprung to her defence first? CM Gujarat, Mr Modi. This happened in 2013, and in one famous speech thereafter, Mr Modi called the CBI -Congress Bureau of Investigation! So for all those political Read more

When was the last time Sri Anna Hazare fasted and almost no one took notice of it? One of the biggest favours India owes to Mr Modi is how this government has managed to neutralise this Grand Disrupter who was unfortunately labeled a Gandhian and ascribed every manner of political virtue when he set about Read more

The Mirage 2000 crash at HAL complex cost two young test pilot lives and it is tragic how we have in one flash of this crash, labelled the French aircraft- the MiG21 of now! Calls have emerged calling for grounding of the fleet, of suspending the HAL from having any involvement in maintenance of IAF Read more