Pakistan

Evolving security dynamic in West Asia and India’s challenges

As the controversy over the disrespect to Islam and the Holy Prophet by some errant individuals of the Indian ruling party raged across West Asia , I was happy to see the book edited by veteran diplomat and West Asia expert Ambassador Anil...

June 11, 2022

Tags: Afghanistan, China, Indo-Pacific, Middle East, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Turkey, WANA region, West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Col (Dr) Guru SadayBatabyal (Retd), Politico-Military Strategy of the Bangladesh Liberation War, 1971 Routledge, 2021, PP 314, ISBN: 978-0-367-32268-7 (hbk), INR – 1210/-

Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)

Fifty years of the Bangladesh Liberation War has been celebrated this year. It is appropriate that a path-breaking book be published during the Liberation War celebration. This book should be of immense interest to the defence and strategic...

March 30, 2022

Tags: 1971, Bangladesh Liberation War, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Neighbourhood Studies

India’s Ocean- The story of India’s bid for regional leadership by David Brewster, New York: Routledge, 2014. pp228. ISBN- 978-0-415-52059-1

Amruta Karambelkar

Indian Ocean is of critical importance to India. The Indian peninsula juts out into the Indian Ocean. In fact, this is the only ocean in the world that is named after a country. The 21st century is a maritime century; therefore, the significance of...

May 19, 2020

Tags: David Brewster, Indian Ocean, Indian perspective, Maritime century, Pakistan, Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory, Aanchal Malhotra, Harper Collins Publishers, India, Pages 400, Price Rs 799/-.

Rajesh Singh

Book Review

It was Elie Wiesel who had said, “Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilisation, no society, no future.” The Holocaust survivor would know, as would those in India and Pakistan who went through the trauma of...

November 13, 2017

Tags: 1947, India, Islamic nation, Mahatma Gandhi, Pakistan, Governance and Political Studies

Kashmir: The Unwritten History; Christopher Snedden; Harper Collins; PP 434; Rs 599

Sushant Sareen

Book Review - An Underhand Pitch for Plebiscite

Over the last few months, there is suddenly a lot of unnecessary, unwarranted and self-serving focus of Western academics, analysts and authors on the India-Pakistan equation – the issue of Jammu and Kashmir inevitably being a centre-piece of the...

July 24, 2013

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Azad Kashmir, Kashmir, Pakistan, Jammu & Kashmir