Pakistan’s Zero Sum Game – Some Historical Perspectives – Part II
[contextly_sidebar id=”pcsGYY4n1eiDOKiDgjpmeJdoT1KUTsE1″] While Pakistan struggles towards its goal of achieving a homogenous monoculture with Islamism at its core, India has struggled equally to define More...
Pakistan’s Zero Sum Game – Some Historical Perspectives-1
Pakistan and India fought the first Kashmir war between October 1947 and December 1948. At the time of independence, the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was independently ruled by Maharaja Hari Singh, of the More...
Call For Worldwide ‘Ghar Wapsi’
One kind of terrorism is affecting the whole world. There is no singular phenomenon other than Islamism that motivates terrorists from Asia to Europe to Africa. Now even the US, protected geographically on either More...
Revisiting a Classic—The Calcutta Quran Petition: Book Review
Background The average educated person today, anywhere in the world, is likely to be both confused and frightened by Islam. On the one hand, it is supposed to be a religion of peace that preaches equality and justice More...
Pakistani Jihad-ISIS Spreads Terror Tentacles in a Dozen Indian States
Abstract Information available from open source media regarding pro-ISIS elements in India indicates that jihadist activities are being observed by intelligence agencies in a dozen Indian states. This article will More...
The Case for reform of Islam in India
Speaking about the risk of a likely lone wolf attack in India, Maharashtra state police chief Sanjeev Dayal told a newspaper in January: “we had this case where this man wanted to go to a school in Bandra More...
ISI hand in the Maoist insurgency to subvert India
Now that the crony-Islamic regime of the UPA has been defeated electorally and booted out of power lock stock and barrel, it’s time to decode certain murky political developments during last 10 years. Tracing More...
Cleansing the media-made distortion of AFSPA
Note: The authors of this article gratefully acknowledge the inputs given by an army officer–who wishes to remain anonymous–involved in insurgency combat in the area. Introduction The summer of 2012–2013 More...
Why is Sonia soft on Islamic terror: Part 2
Read Part 1 here. Sonia Gandhi’s softness towards Islamic Fundamentalists runs the risk of making India an attractive destination for the Jihadis. As noted in the previous part, Sonia Gandhi, though not officially More...