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The Pune Mayhem and a Sleeping India
Pune bomb blast on February 13, 2010 has revived the ghastly memories of 26/11 Pakistani attack on Mumbai, nearly about 15 months ago in 2008. It is surprising that Indian political leaders and common citizen express shock, surprise and remain agitated for a few weeks and then relapse into the humdrum of daily life. There [...]
Sonar Bangla: The golden hue in sight
Bangladesh has visibly crossed several crossroads. After thirty five years of the dastardly assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by army rebels guided by plotters like Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmad, Ziaur Rahman justice has been meted out to five killers. They were hanged on January 28, 2010. The remaining seven killers are hiding abroad. Irrespective of [...]
America’s global war against Islamic jihad : India’s geostrategic concerns
War begets war. Peace does not always beget peace. Chanakya said: war and peace are integral parts of statesmanship. Both tricks should be played on the basis of historic necessity of policy priority of the State, the King’s and his subject’s interests. The saying is a part of practical foreign policy of ancient and modern [...]
India falters in combating Maoist guerrillas: Some Lessons
Active Maoist Guerrilla warfare and passive expansion of the ideology of capturing power through the barrels of the gun is swinging imagination of masses living in the fringe areas of the society-the rural have-nots, forgotten forest dwellers and the exploited masses in different parts of the country. Statistically the Maoist headed movement has affected several [...]
Maoist insurgency and guerrilla warfare and state response, part-I
Several readers and visitors ventilated their genuine and perceived anguish about Maoist threat to the country and the alleged poor state of counterinsurgency operations by the Union and State Law & Order and Intelligence agencies. The subject is vast with protracted historical background and hundreds of books and research papers are available on the subject. [...]
Talibnanized Pakistan and threat to regional security
Collapsing stars end in bang hurling debris for millions of light years. A collapsing country creates geopolitical tectonic disturbances. Breakup of the USSR is still churning out debris and the collapsed Balkans is still simmering with volcanic anger and sense of humiliation. In our neighbourhood Pakistan is burning in volcanic churning. The jihad-bacterial-colony has been [...]
India’s melting and fermenting borders and strategic ocean boundaries
Political history and destiny of a nation is determined by its geophysical borders as well geopolitical and geostrategic borders. India’s political and cultural borders, from ancient times, waxed and waned with the might of arms and foresight of its dynastic rulers. Later traditions had put Hindukush (massacre of the Hindus) as the western border that [...]
Persecution of Christians in Pakistan
I learnt from Richard Aldrich, professor of International Security, University of Warwick and an eminent authority on intelligence, that inquisitiveness about what cooks in neighbor’s pot and under his quilt was one of the primitive ingredients that went in making the science and art of intelligence.
Balochistan: Cruces of History- Part II
I had written a 16 pages long dissertation on Baloch problem with the banner: Balochistan: Cruces of History. Readers may like to read the same in this website. That piece was well appreciated by most intellectuals, my Baloch friends and even a few sensible Pakistani literati.
Shame at Sharm Al Sheikh : How Manmohan succumbed to US & Pak blackmail?
What was India doing at Sharm-al-Shyakh? Attending the Non- Aligned Nations Meet (NAM). What was Pakistan doing there? Also attending the NAM. The basic questions are: 1. How can an American Client State be non-aligned? 2. How can a Chinese client State be a member of the NAM? Some wise cracks say that both the [...]
Indian Fault Lines: Perception and Reality
We live in an uncertain world, more so, in an uncertain country. Whatever is left of India after 1947 is supposed to be a ‘One India’ united imperishably by all the parameters of nationhood. This philosophical assertion and wishful thinking and perception of oneness have not stood the test of time, since 1947. The emotional [...]
Electoral Democracy or Hindutwa: Choice before BJP
The air was thick with speculation about the election process and expected and wished results. Lalu’s RJD, Paswans Lok Janshakti Party, Mulayam’s Samajwadi Party, Mayawati’s BSP, Jayalalitha’s AIADMK etc had prepared a wish list and expected mangoes to grow on coconut tree. They neither reaped the mango nor the coconut. The pragmatic regional party-Biju Janata [...]
The next government in Delhi – National and Strategic security challenges
Mrs. Hilary Clinton, the US Secretary of State in a recent statement expected India to play a vital role in the regional conflicts raging in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Her brief statement was followed up at a Senate hearing on May 13. The US Afghanistan-Pakistan special envoy Richard Holbrooke acknowledged that India has a great role [...]
