Category Archives: Indian Politics

Jaswant Singh, RIP

Posted on September 27, 2020 by

As people you know, love, respect and admire immensely depart the stage, a hollowness grows in the heart, and the world gets dimmer. Major Jaswant Singh, long time Member of Parliament and erstwhile Foreign Minister, Defence Minister, and Finance Minister … Continue reading →

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Modi’s reverse “no risk it, no biscuit” policy in Ladakh

Posted on September 16, 2020 by

Four months into the Chinese annexation of Indian territory in eastern Ladakh, specifically in the Galwan Valley, the Hot Springs-Gogra-Kugrang area, and in the stretch of the northern shore of the Pangong Lake from Fingers 3 to 8, the BJP … Continue reading →

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India, a sissy state, between rock and a hard place

Posted on August 30, 2020 by

Five months into the Chinese annexation of Indian territory, the Chief of Defense Staff General Bipin Rawat gingerly girded up his loins to announce August 25 the possibility of military action to vacate this aggression. “The defence services always remain … Continue reading →

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India’s nervous Nelly policy in Ladakh (augmented)

Posted on August 6, 2020 by

The Modi government’s approach to tackling an obstreperous China, like that adopted in the Vajpayee interregnum and by the Manmohan Singh regime, is frighteningly stupid. If both the PM and his cohort and the Army brass in Leh and at … Continue reading →

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Not a Bang, but a slow leak of gas

Posted on June 30, 2020 by

This is getting seriously worrisome. The media was primed to hear Prime Minister Narendra Modi finally speak about the national security crisis engendered by the bloody border clashes with China; a crisis that with every passing day growingly advantages Beijing. … Continue reading →

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Is Modi ceding Indian territory to China?

Posted on June 21, 2020 by

                                Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement to opposition leaders regarding the crisis in eastern Ladakh has confounded the already existing confusion. His declaration, without mentioning China, that “No one has forcibly entered into Indian territory, there is no intruder … Continue reading →

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Why China is doing what it is doing and Delhi is doing little

Posted on May 25, 2020 by

[An Indian soldier stopping a PLA soldier — a mobile pic hurriedly snapped] The Press reported that on Saturday May 23 the Army Chief, MM Naravane, briefed Defence Minister Rajnath Singh about the state of affairs in the Ladakh sector … Continue reading →

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Pakistan’s diplomatic counter-offensive

Posted on May 9, 2020 by

India has feasted diplomatically on Pakistan’s complicity in terrorist acts over the past two decades. There was a credible enough case made for the UN Financial Assistance Task Force (FATF) to put Pakistan on its sanctions’ ‘grey list’ owing to … Continue reading →

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Ram Madhav makes a laughingstock of Modi and his foreign policy

Posted on April 15, 2020 by

Slow news week and month to-date (and months to follow?) are inescapable with the world under corona lock down conditions. There’s need for some laughs or at least diversion from what one’s doing — re-reading classics (Herman Kahn’s On Thermonuclear … Continue reading →

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Next Corona steps: Modi’s options

Posted on April 11, 2020 by

[Delhi under lock down] The 3-week country lock down Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced will have run its course by April 15. He is having a teleconference today with the chief ministers of all the states to decide on follow-up … Continue reading →

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