How the media conspires to work against India
Recently, Arnab Goswami managed, within just four minutes, to focus the attention of the entire nation on the compromised and unethical journalism practiced by certain journalists, who continue to peddle an anti-Indian More...
Can we afford ‘Udta-Rajasthan’?
Punjab is the most famous name in the field of Drug addiction and drug menace. But now after “Udta Punjab”, the competition appears to have emerged in the neighboring state “Udta Rajasthan”. The state of More...
Dialectics of Islamic terror
The recent Dhaka terror outrage is an illustration of the dangers, civilians face everywhere. No one is safe from terrorists prepared to commit suicide in carrying out attacks. Unfortunately, terrorism is proving More...
Life along Indo-Pak Border in Rajasthan: A Cultural Insight
The Radcliffe line recognised in August 1947, partitioned India and Pakistan. India shares 2900km International Border (IB) with Pakistan on the western front. Geographically, Rajasthan is the largest state on the More...
Ten things that define Adarsh-Liberal’s Idea of India
Ever since Narendra Modi’s government came to power in 2014, a bunch of intellectuals, liberals, seculars, and senior editors have been saying that the ‘Idea of India’ is under threat. No matter what happens, More...
(South) Asians? Who? Us? – Astitva and Asmita
It has been another typical fortnight. Whilst the Indian Space Research Organization ISRO successfully launched its first ever “Made in India” space shuttle, the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV-TD), , scholars, More...
Pakistani Travelogue-II: Pakistani Perceptions of India
[contextly_sidebar id=”hfSO3toJTSSxNwE5BxJ1HU7EJttBiDDT”] Gargantuan government edifices glittered behind freshly painted wrought-iron fences, glamorous palaces to Pakistani politics in marble and brass More...
Kargil and the Manufacturing of History –III
[contextly_sidebar id=”Mgin1FqHgad1s782C1hodCMbJoB9O7QM”] In Pakistan in 1999, the “war-like” conflict in Kargil was a powerfully relevant ‘real-time’ example of my scholarly research, as I was More...
Kargil And The Manufacturing Of History-II
[contextly_sidebar id=”jovmbKmY9GY76GXY4apfRvvEstVV4WVj”] The diplomacy bus was sparkling new as I rode from Delhi to Lahore in June 1999, our high profile vehicle had a military escort all the way from More...
Kargil And The Manufacturing Of History-I
In the spring of 1999, when the “war-like” situation erupted in Kashmir in the Kargil district, I was doing research regarding history textbooks in Bangladesh. A few weeks before I left Bangladesh, a direct More...