2 Comments Given the high levels of fear and mistrust on both sides, it is necessary to avoid inadvertent escalations that might spiral things out of control. It is clear that Russia had no intention of invading Ukraine but all it wanted was to prevent it from becoming a satellite state of the US. India has been […]
2 Comments (This is the concluding part in the 2-part series on Dr BR Ambedkar and Veer Savarkar. First part can be read here) Over one hundred years ago Vinayak Damodar Savarkar had dreamt of creating a naval fortress to protect India. The analysis by one of the greatest strategic thinkers of modern India has never been […]
1 Comment (This is the first article in a 2-part series on Dr BR Ambedkar and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar) When India got its independence in 1947 in terms of diplomacy, national security, and the economy, India was in dire straits. And to further compound this problem, the new leader of India was to be the mercurial and […]
1 Comment Afghanistan is often called the ‘graveyard of empires’ but in reality, it is simply a graveyard where empires go to wage their wars. It is land that has been invaded first by the Persians, Greeks, and then the Arabs who brought Islam after a long struggle against the Hindus and Buddhists who lived there, and later […]
2 Comments “I would like to emphasize that security can be endangered not only from outside but also from within. That is why we must be second to none in the application of advanced technologies to the real problems of man and the society” – Dr Vikram Sarabhai These ominous words of the father of the Indian space program […]
2 Comments NATO was at its borders but the straw that broke the camel’s back was always going to be Ukraine and the attempted regime change in the resource-rich Kazakhstan. For Vladimir Putin, the 1990s was a decade of humiliation as Russia was weak and one can even blame its President Yeltsin for failing to understand the […]
1 Comment Any Islamist apologist or pseudo-liberal historians in Bharat who claim that the invading Muslim horde from the hot deserts of Arabia and later from Central Asia could have easily converted the Sanatanis of Bharat to Islam are lying. Arguments such as Hindus are still the majority in India because Islam is a religion of peace […]
2 Comments The book, JNU, Nationalism And India’s Uncivil War written by poet and author professor Makarand R. Paranjape tells the story of the author’s steely determination to overcome institutionalized intolerance of the leftists who long dominated this edifice of higher learning.
1 Comment Alarm bells are ringing in the South Pacific after the government of Solomon Island signed a framework agreement on security cooperation with China. This is big news in the geostrategic circles. However, it seems the world is still obsessing over Ukraine and Russia and this unnecessary preoccupation is now costing America and its Southern Hemisphere […]
5 Comments As the credits started to roll, we all got up to leave amid a silence unheard of. Never in my life have I experienced such silence at the end of a movie and saw people walking quietly out of a film theatre. No one spoke, the audience walked quietly without pushing one another and it […]
