Security Related Issues
Will the US – Taliban peace accord hold? The majority perhaps would respond with a vociferous ‘no’ while some with a nuanced ‘maybe’. The naysayers primarily belong to two distinct categories: first, those who firmly […]
Ruled by the RSS/BJP government of Prime Minister Modi, India has become a fascist state with nuclear weapons. Leaders pursuing such an extremist, irrational and belligerent ideology pose a grave danger because they cannot be […]
The agreement signed between the US government and Taliban was a momentous step towards securing peace in war-ravaged Afghanistan. The date of the agreement—February 29th—is also significant since it is a fortnight short of the […]
Recently, Lieutenant General (retd) Khalid Kidwai gave an opening speech during a workshop titled, “South Asian Strategic Stability: Deterrence, Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control” held by the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) and Centre […]
When one thinks of India, what comes to mind is a nation that houses one of the largest numbers of faith communities and languages across the globe. A nation that is entrenched with a rich […]
The recent riots in New Delhi have once again exposed India’s structural fault lines, posing a serious existential challenge to a country of more than 1.3 billion population that remains deeply divided based on religious […]
“It’s good when the oppressed fight for their rights – as long as they do it away from us.” The young lady who made this statement earned my gratitude for her compassion and her honesty. […]
Third-party initiatives to broker peace between Jews and Palestinians have had within them an embedded element of partiality toward one side. The Balfour Declaration, a letter written in 1917 by Arthur Balfour, the-then Foreign Secretary […]
The collapse of the Soviet Union sealed the fate of the realist-bipolar world order and the United States – the leader of the so-called free world – ascended triumphantly. It asserted itself as a liberal […]
US President Donald Trump’s maiden visit (yatra) to India (Bharat) has been deemed a roaring success by the spin doctors. Let us briefly examine the positives of his historic visit. Narendra Modi, India’s Prime Minister, […]
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