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Bangladesh at crossroads
Bangladesh is at crossroads. Political developments during last two years had brought into sharp focus the quantum of ideological chasm between the forces headed by pro-liberation combine headed by Sheikh Hasina and the post-Mujib political usurpers headed by Begum Zia. Bangladesh was born out of the aspirations of the Bengali speaking people to achieve political, [...]
Bangladesh: A Need to Rediscover the Secular Forces
Some scholars and geopolitical analysts feel that the epicentre of the concept and practice of Islamist jihad has shifted from Pakistan to Bangladesh. It has emerged as a critical breeding ground of Islamist jihad. Mushrooming of jihadist tanzeems between 1980 and 2005 apparently supports these allegations. Escalation of violence aimed at overthrowing the constitutional democracy [...]
Better Battle Orders for Fighting Terrorism
October 29th serial blasts in Delhi has again proved that the combat tools of the Union and State governments are awfully deficient in drawing up battle plans against Pakistan’s proxy war and behind the lines strikes by Pakistan and Bangladesh based jihadi tanzeems, which are patronised by the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan and [...]
Bloody Spring Blossom
The spring-thaw at the peak of white winter has blown in warm air in Indo-Pak relationship. A mirage of permanent peace is discernible. It is hoped the spring blooms are not mirages and are not smeared with blood.
However, ordinary Indian citizen, battered by Pakistan’s proxy war and direct jihadist intervention do not feel insulated by [...]
Stagnate or march with time
The news that the UK has abandoned apartheid in its recruitment policy for the Secret Services (MI6) has hit the headlines. The UK has just crossed the colour-blind limits of its core security services. It has also adopted an open-space policy to make recruitment to Secret Services more transparent. Opening up opportunities to naturalised citizens [...]
The ‘intelligent’ games nations play and what they imply
Former Soviet KGB archivist Vassily Mitrokhin has opened a small snuffbox and India should not be rocked by historical truths, though the myth of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi being a Soviet agent is a blatant lie. The India-Russia relationship cannot be gauged by the activities of the secret services. India’s relationship with the USSR was [...]
Games they play
Strategic geopolitical location of India, its importance in regional and global power politics and ever increasing interest of the global players in burgeoning Indian economy have attracted attention of the major intelligence agencies–MI6/ MI5 (UK), CIA (five more US agencies), KGB and GRU (Russia), Direction Generale de la Securite Extrieure (DGSE), Secretariat general de la [...]
Ghost of history
The Ghost of History has again rocked India. However, this is not volcanic explosion, rather storm in a teacup. The Mitrokhin Archives II, an account of KGB activities in India and other parts of the world has revealed very few surprises than what was known to the Indian intelligence community and the political executives.
Espionage activities [...]
Hanging Afzal…
Arundhati Roy’s Op Ed piece in Hindustan Times (December 23) evoked my curiosity and admiration for the courageous person. She touched several raw nerves.
The death sentence on Mohammad Afzal Guru has also been a sentence on our frivolous societal behaviour. We have been deluged by floods of reportage, comments, display of anger, hatred, and [...]
In the name of the law
The national shame of the ‘encounter’ killings of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausar Bi by the Gujarat police’s anti-terrorist squad and the arrest of three IPS officers may have shocked a few activists and media analysts. But, by and large, it has not moved the people of India. Events prove that even the war [...]
A Bird’s Eye View of Internal Security Scenario
A nation’s march towards sustainable progress intrinsically depends on security ambience that increases comfort level of its citizens. Security is a multilayered concept. Besides capability to protect the country from external aggression and internal disturbances social, economic, environmental, class, gender etc securities define the contours and core of the security status of a nation. In [...]
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.
India was the Jewel of the Crown of Britain too. It was studded with modern age jewels like Tilak, Lal-Bal-Pal, Gandhi, Subhash [...]
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, [...]
