Archive for Archive for May, 2008
Can India Inc. fight jihad international?
The Jaipur serial blasts on May 13, 2008 have again proved that there are no proverbial chinks in our national armour. In fact, we do not have any armour. We have inadequate fire tenders in the form of Intelligence Bureau, State Police Intelligence and several paramilitary forces with mouthful names. We have inherited the mirage [...]
Why should Rahul meditate and Ignore congress sychophants?
“Why do I think Rahul will one day make a good prime minister? This half-Italian, quarter-Parsi, quarter-Kashmiri pandit is modest, bright (but fortunately not too brilliant—always a handicap in most professions), hardworking and shrewd. He knows which buttons to press, who to rely on, the kind of talent to surround himself with. In [...]
Post-Musharraf Kashmir and Fresh Jihad Threats
“Martyrs are crown of the Umaah and they restricted Russians in Afghanistan otherwise Pakistan was endangered; the movement for independence in Kashmir will be continued even though Musharraf has taken a U-turn.” (Daily Times 31. 03. 08)
People’s War: People’s Defence
Two contradictory news items had hit the headlines of mainstream dailies on May 4th 2008. A delegation of the Communist Party of India consisting A. B. Bardhan, Gurudas Dasgupta and D. Raja had called on the PM on May 3 (Hindu front-page) to urge the leader of the coalition government headed by Congress Party to [...]
Far East by North East of our minds
It is rather difficult to define the geographical, political, ethnic, linguistic, cultural and economic parameters of the place we call North East- North East of What? Is it North East of geophysical India, Indian mindset or anything outside India?
Kosovos in India?
I am not seeding a new idea. I am sharing not only the idea but concerns and apprehensions expressed in several world capitals over the unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo, a breakaway Albanian Muslim majority province of Serbia. Normally a distant Muslim province of 2 million people of which 10% are Orthodox Christian Serbs, [...]
Blinded mice & jewel of India
Twenty-sixth January visited to remind us that we had given to ourselves a Republic with democratic and secular dispensations. Long live the Republic and long live the Crown of Homo sapiens’ exalted civilisation.
Discovery of and by Pakistan
“Nehru wrote The Discovery of India in the Ahmednagar Fort prison. I began my journey to discover Pakistan in the New Central Jail, Multan…”
So reads a small segment of the book on Discovery of Pakistan- The Indus Saga-From Pataliputra to Partition by Aitzaz Ahsan, a legal luminary, human rights activist and an unrelenting champion of [...]
A guided tour to outer-India (I)
Have you heard place names like Somdal, Chapkikarong, and Soraphungetc? Some may have, most must not. Do not sound to be Indian names. Yet they are Indian name places in Manipur.
The Indian army and paramilitary forces took over three months (Nov-07 to February 08) to partially recapture the sensitive Somdal areas on Indo-Myanmar border from [...]
