Category Archives: South Asia

Aussie-think on Quad

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Bharat Karnad

(Julie Bishop Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade at the release of the White Paper) Spent a good part of the past week in Sydney and that part of New South Wales, doing touristy stuff — and being a … Continue reading →

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Litigating Tejas LCA’s quality & utility

Posted on November 22, 2017 by Bharat Karnad

(Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa in the Tejas) No pilot who has actually flown the indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft has had anything but the highest praise for the fighter plane. This includes two recent … Continue reading →

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Spiking Spike is good, now start incentivising DRDO & making it accountable

Posted on November 20, 2017 by Bharat Karnad

(Firing Spike) On the eve of Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Israel a column of mine published July 1, 2017 in BloomberyQuint and posted on this blog (https://bharatkarnad.com/2017/07/01/modi-in-israel-need-for-more-equitable-defence-collaboration/ ) had argued for a more fair and equitable arrangement with Israel … Continue reading →

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Defence Manufacturing — Dawn of a New Era?

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Bharat Karnad

Panel discussion on the subject with Air Marshal NV Tyagi, former Deputy Chief of Air Staff, Behera of IDSA and self, broadcast on Thursday, Nov 16

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Strategic Importance of the Quadrilateral

Posted on November 16, 2017 by Bharat Karnad
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Stop the vilification campaign against Tejas

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Bharat Karnad

(Tejas LCAs lined up on tarmac) A planned vilification campaign is now underway against the indigenous Tejas Light Combat Aircraft programme. It has been initiated in newspapers and internet sites. Next one can see television — with TV channel reporters … Continue reading →

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Modi govt writing finis to Tejas?

Posted on October 29, 2017 by Bharat Karnad

(FGFA) All work related to designing and developing the indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft and its variants, including the right-weighted naval Tejas, has come to a stop at ADA and HAL. The plan was for the air force Mk-II version … Continue reading →

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Takeaways from Tillerson’s visit

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Bharat Karnad

Rajya Sabha TV panel discussion programme — ‘The Big Picture’ broadcast yesterday Oct 26, 2017.

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Tillerson offers nothing new, just another bandwagon

Posted on October 22, 2017 by Bharat Karnad

  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will be in Delhi Oct 24 to further what he says is President Trump’s new South Asia strategy. At a curtain raiser to the visit he made a speech at a Washington think-tank … Continue reading →

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Is Pakistan going back on its commitments on terror?

Posted on October 21, 2017 by Bharat Karnad

Rajya Sabha TV –‘The Big Picture’ program – panel discussion with Rana Banerji, Maj Gen AS Siwach, Smita Sharma of Tribune, and your truly broadcast Oct 13, uploaded Oct 16.  

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