C D Sahay

C D Sahay was a Distinguished Fellow at VIF. He is a Former Secretary (Research and Analysis Wing), Cabinet Secretariat. C D Sahay joined the Indian Police Service in 1967 and moved to Delhi in 1975 to join the Research and Analysis Wing, India’s external Intelligence setup. He rose to head the organisation from 2003 till Superannuation in 2005. He has decades of experience in dealing with national security issues and international terrorism.

Contributions

Al Qaida Affiliate AGuH Leader Zakir Musa Killed in J&K - What Lies Ahead?

June 17, 2019 Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF

On 23 May 2019, while all the prime time news channels in India were intensely pre-occupied with news and analysis of the Parliamentary Election 2019, a few of them found time and space to flash a piece of a very significant security related news fro...

Tags: Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Article, End of terrorist Musa, Islamist terror in Kashmir, Radicalisation in Kashmir

Re-emergence of Islamic State’s Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

May 09, 2019 Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF

On Saturday, April 27, 2019, Islamic State’s (IS) central media outlet, Al-Furqan, released an 18-minute propaganda video featuring its ‘underground’ leader and self-proclaimed ‘Caliph Ibrahim’, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.1 It was the...

Tags: Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies, Article, Islamic State Caliphate, Al-Baghdadi’s video, international terrorism

Terror Once Again Raises its Ugly Head in Sri Lanka

April 25, 2019 C D Sahay

After just about a decade of peace, on Easter Sunday morning (April 21, 2019), Sri Lanka was rudely shaken by a series of suicide bombing attacks, three of them targeting Church congregations in Colombo and another four at up-market hotels and a gues...

Tags: Neighbourhood Studies, Sri Lanka, Article, Sri Lanka terror attack, Controlling radicalization in Islamic society

Islamic State (IS) Activities in India- A Trend Analysis

March 20, 2019 Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF

Recent Arrest of IS Operatives in India On November 20, 2017, reacting to a question on growing spread of Islamic (IS) ideology in India, the Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh had said, “Indian Muslims would never allow terroris...

Tags: Governance and Political Studies, Article

Keep CBI Out of Politics-But Only If It Suits Me!

February 11, 2019 C D Sahay

Even before the country’s top investigating agency, the CBI could start recovering from the ‘CBI vs CBI’ episode involving its top two functionaries -in fact the new Director Rishi Kumar Shukla was yet to assume charge - the agency got engulfed...

Tags: Governance and Political Studies, Commentary, : CBI in Kolkata, Sharda Scam, Politics and corruption

VIF Papers

Nepal’s March Towards Constitutional Democracy

August 13, 2018 C D Sahay

… India-Nepal relations are a vast confluence of socio political and economic engagements …evolved from age-old ties and permeate our socio-cultural aspects …multi-faceted and multi-dimensional approach is required on both sides to study and an...

Tags: Neighbourhood Studies, Nepal, India-Nepal relations

The ISIS Phantasmagoria and its Implications for India : Building Capacities to Prevent and Counter Radicalisation and Violent Extremism

March 30, 2017 Navroz Singh

Rise of a Demonic Force: Daesh Daesh as a tangible entity was in the making for several decades prior to the supposed cut-off date which recognises its meteoric rise in the region, and eventually beyond the borders of the self-pro...

Tags: Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies, Daesh, ISIS, Al Qaeda, Violent Extremism, Counter Radicalisation

Terror Financing and The Global CTF Regime

January 27, 2017 C D Sahay

How do Terrorists Finance their Operations and Supply their Funds? Finance and movement of funds are crucial to any terrorist organisation. Regular sources of finance are as important as ideology and the ready supply o...

Tags: Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies, Terrorism, Terror Financing, Global CTF Regime, Funds

Sri Lanka: The Unfinished Part of the Eelam War

June 17, 2016 C D Sahay

While many are optimistic about the Maithripala Sirisena government’s ability to make progress on reconciliation, some systemic issues need to be addressed which not only demands political will, but also requires cooperation from diaspora, civil so...

Tags: Neighbourhood Studies, Sri Lanka, Eelam War, Sri Lankan Tamils

Book Published / Book Reviews

Vimarsh New Frontiers in Public Debate

March 31, 2020 C D Sahay

There is always a purpose, an objective and a target audience behind the exercise of writing and publishing any book. Measured against these classical parameters, the book on 'Vimarsh' might appear a bit different from the normal. Yes, it is so in ma...

Tags: Governance and Political Studies, Indian history, Civilisation, Book Published, Vimarsh

VIF Briefs

Kashmir - Is the Time Ripe for a New Outreach Strategy?

June 26, 2020 Abhinav Pandya

India’s historic move on August 5, 2019, heralded a new era in Jammu and Kashmir, a state which witnessed an uncertain political status and 30 years of Pak-sponsored Jihadist militancy. Before the abrogation of article 370, the normal life had come...

Tags: Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Pakistan, Kashmir, Terrorism, IS, Al Qaeda, Article 370, Big Outreach

Post 370 Kashmir - Roadmap for the future and Emerging Security Challenges

January 06, 2020 Abhinav Pandya

As Jammu and Kashmir enters the fifth month since the abrogation of Article 370, the national and international media, opposition leaders, and many public intellectuals have continued to repeatedly raise serious concerns about the security and commun...

Tags: Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Jammu and Kashmir, Article 370, Post 370 Kashmir

Kashmir - A New Chapter Begins

August 09, 2019 Abhinav Pandya

… the recent decisions of abrogation of Article 370 along with Article 35A, and bifurcation of the State … are indeed historic and will help the State and its people, chart out for itself/themselves a new future of peace, progress and integratio...

Tags: Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Kashmir, Article 35A, Modi Government, Article 370, Chapter Begins

Jammu and Kashmir Security Review 2018 -What lies ahead?

April 15, 2019 Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF

… continuing Pakistani support to the militants groups, terrorism in the Kashmir Valley is unlikely vanish anytime soon … however the support system to anti-India activities in the Valley is being continuously degraded … welfare and development...

Tags: Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Terrorism in Kashmir, Pakistan’s terror war, India’s counter-terrorism

Rise of Jaish-e-Mohammed in Kashmir Valley - an Internal Security Perspective

January 25, 2018 C D Sahay

Introduction On January 2, 2016, a group of four to six well trained Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists launched an audacious attack on the Pathankot Air Base in Punjab. In an operation that continued over the next four days, all t...

Tags: Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies, Pakistan, Kashmir Valley, Pathankot Attack, United Jihad Council, Jaish-e-Mohammed