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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Pakistan it would appear has opened a front too many. Afghanistan warned Pakistan over violation in terms of the proposed manner for conduct of talks with Taliban, there is Iran whose Revolutionary Guards have issued warnings over the car bomb that killed Guardsmen in the Isfahan province, and we have India up in arms over […]