Combat at 16,000 feet: How Kargil reshaped the India Pakistan military balance
In February 1999, the Pakistan Army launched Operation Badr, with soldiers from its Special Service Group, Northern Light Infantry and Sind Regiment along with heavily armed Afghan mercenaries occupying the posts in Kashmir vacated by the Indian Army at the end of summer. Numbering well over 4,000, these infiltrators established 196 posts at elevations More...
Left-Liberals as passionate reactionaries- Deconstructing the Romila Thapar incident
The human mind is controlled primarily by two psychological phenomena – reason & passion. These concepts were acknowledged in the great ideological debate between the arch proponents of Classical Liberalism More...
Book Review & Summary: The Cultural Landscape Of Hindutva And Other Essays By Saumya Dey- II
The Cultural Landscape of Hindutva & Other Essays: Historical Legitimacy of an Idea by Saumya Dey is available for purchase on Amazon. In the first part, we reviewed the section on ‘Politics and Culture’ More...
Book Review & Summary: The Cultural Landscape Of Hindutva And Other Essays By Saumya Dey- I
The Cultural Landscape of Hindutva & Other Essays: Historical Legitimacy of an Idea by Saumya Dey is available for purchase on Amazon. This collection of twelve brilliant essays by Dr Saumya Dey can have More...
JNU, the Headquarters of the Breaking India Enterprise
Understanding the Breaking India Enterprise We owe the phrase ‘breaking India’ to that wonderfully insightful book co-authored by Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan (Breaking India: Western Interventions More...
Secularism: the Most Abused “privilege” of Indian Constitution
Partition of India happened on religious lines beyond any shadow of doubt. So, why is it that we choose to remain a secular country while our counterpart nation, Pakistan, never bothers about it? This is for the More...
Chief of Defence Staff- PM’s Welcome Initiative May Yet Be Stymied by the Babus
The Prime Minister’s announcement of the Government’s decision to implement a much-needed (and much-delayed) reform in the country’s defence management structure was welcome news indeed. The fact that he More...
Bilderberg Conference: A shadowy group pushing Western domination
For 66 years the Bilderberg Conference, an unofficial conclave of the Western world’s 100 most powerful people, has been meeting in secluded places under a complete media blackout. Invitees usually are from business, More...
When I say Princess, do you think Disney? And what if I say Raj-Kumari?
Let’s play a little word-image association game. What images come up when you hear the word ‘Princess’? A girl dressed in fine clothes? Expensive jewelry? Or is it a light-skinned girl, probably with More...
Checkmate Article 370!
Removing Article 370 looked unthinkable to all previous administrations because of domestic and international complications. This is an analytical look at threading together some well-known events from various More...