Beware of half truths — because you may be holding the wrong half. After having seen and read so much about the Sohrabuddin episode in the last five years, one might believe one knows it all. Sohrabuddin is now cast as an innocent victim of police ....
“When Jammu and Kashmir was blockaded a couple of years ago the matter kept the Government and media preoccupied for months. Manipur has been blockaded for at least a month and a half, without any respite-people are starving, there are no medicines....
Pakistan’s military leadership may consider Havana statement a dividend for the terror attacks in India
India has suffered its first strategic setback in the fight against terrorism by certifying that Pakistan is not an aggressor but ....
Hyderabad blasts were waiting to happen; why they weren’t prevented is a longer story of deliberate diversion.
For nations, it matters what happens to them; but the course of their history is often determined less by what happened and m....
THE ENEMIES, both within and without, use bullets and bombs, not to kill people. They are collateral damages. The real objective is to subdue the enemy by breaking its will and dictating its terms of peace.
So far as emigrants go, accordin....
A small island of shopkeepers dominated the largest part of the world for the longest period with Genghis Khan, the brute, being a distant runner-up. The two, separated by several centuries, had nothing in common except their genius for innovation....
Instead of an episodic response, we need stronger laws and proactive intelligence backed by political will
Having decided that India is their prime target, Pakistan and its out¬sourced networks in and around India only have to choo....
The country’s internal security environment, which suffered steady deterioration during UPA’s earlier five-year rule, continues to remain a cause of serious concern. Now that the government is no more fettered by pulls and pressures of coaliti....
Whatever the mode of engagement — war or diplomacy — nations interact to maximise their national interest. In adverse conditions, like defeat in war, they work to minimise their losses. The icing of ideology, morality, justice, global and huma....
Government’s recent decision to seek talks with Pakistan, contrary to its own commitment to the nation that it will engage in this exercise only if the latter provides satisfaction in bringing to book the perpetrators of the Mumbai attack, is a ....