The Enemy Within the Gates – the Indian Republic Faces an Existential Threat
The wide-spread political agitation and violence that the country has seen in the last few days, after the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB) 2019 by both houses of Parliament and its approval by the President, took many ordinary citizens and even sophisticated analysts / commentators by surprise. While some protests were expected, the More...
Geopolitical imperatives for modern India – I
It is a sad fact that foreign and security policies of independent India had not been sufficiently influenced by geopolitical concepts and logics, but rather more by ideological convictions, internal political considerations More...
Why the Left Does Not Comprehend the Indian ‘Felt Community’
Some Theorists of the Nation and Nationalism How do nations emerge? What factors give rise to nationalisms? There is a considerable amount of theoretical literature on these issues and it is not possible to More...
Londonistan Rising: Why Britain Could Be The Next Pakistan
In early 1980, shortly after the Russians had invaded Afghanistan and installed a proxy regime, Britain took the lead in sparking an Islamic jehad in order to bait the bear. The plan was to bring Muslims from all More...
Ayodhya as a foreign policy issue
The recent Ramnath Goenka lecture by External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar was a model of depth, nuance and sophistication. It contained everything I would have wished to propose myself as an international More...
Crime and No Punishment
Beyond Belief: The Catholic Church and the Child Abuse Scandal is the title of David Yallop’s 2010 book, which joins his other fine investigative works about the criminal dealings of the Catholic Church, namely More...
Cultural casualty: Pakistan’s plunge towards Al-Bakistan
Pakistan is a country where the arrow of time is travelling backwards. In the ‘Land of the Pure’, Prime Minister Imran Khan promises to create a mythical seventh century Riyasat-e-Madina (1) yet Islamic demagogues More...
How India Can Thwart Pakistan’s Kartarpur Gambit
For Pakistan, the opening of the Kartarpur corridor is a strategic win. Reluctantly but consciously, India has succumbed to the pressure by Pakistan to open the border and operationalize a channel to allow Pakistan More...
The Myth of beef-eating Hindu
In the past couple of years, whenever they get an opportunity, a few commies and the chrislamists in Kerala used to get charged upon their appetite for Beef. The English media used to play along by serving all More...
Seeds and Knowledge: How the Draft Seeds Bill degrades both
The central government has circulated the Draft Seeds Bill 2019, the text of which raises several red flags about the future of kisan rights, state responsibilities, the role of the private sector seed industry, More...