Indranil Banerjie
‘India must decide what role it will play as land power’
Yossef Bodansky, former director of theUnited States Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare at the US House of Representatives, is an old South Asia hand, who had first warned of the Pakistan-China nexus in the 1990s.
Scholars spar over nature of 1857 ‘revolt’
What precisely occurred in India in 1857? Did the country experience a “sepoy mutiny”, a “war of independence”, a revolt or an uprising? This and related questions continue to be posed by historians regarding the violent insurrection in India in the years 1857-58.
Who’ll chose next Pak Army Chief?
If Nawaz Sharif held any illusions about the extent of his powers as the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan he would have shed them the day he was sworn in.
Who’ll chose next Pak Army Chief?
If Nawaz Sharif held any illusions about the extent of his powers as the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan he would have shed them the day he was sworn in. For, on that day, as he and some of his family members prepared to drive out from Punjab House to the Presidency, their convoy was halted by the shrill whistle of a soldier.
Causality of terrorism defined
The September 11, 2001, terrorist strike on the United States has generated a huge body of literature on terrorism and its various facets.
A raid that changed Pak political history
The killing of the world’s most notorious terrorist, Osama bin Laden, in a daring raid inside Pakistan by US Navy Seals on May 2, 2011 was indeed a landmark event. It signalled victory for the United States, which had promised to get Bin Laden dead or alive; it hugely bolstered the United States confidence and permanently cast a shadow over the Pakistan Army for either being complicit with Bin Laden or being hugely incompetent for not knowing that he was living under their noses all these years.
India needs to come out of shell
The focus of Indian strategic experts and commentators is usually on the country’s immediate neighbourhood, especially on Pakistan and China. That there is a larger world and equally critical geopolitical equations that lie beyond India’s periphery tend to be underplayed and occupy much less talk time.
Of Kings, courtiers, and lives less known
This collection of newspaper and magazine articles by former BJP external affairs and fi-nance minister, Jaswant Singh, can best be des-cribed as a motley omnibus of his writing during the 1980s. That was the decade when the Bharatiya Janata Party, to which the author belonged, was far from power and as a bright but junior Rajya Sabha member, had plenty of time on his hands.
How cosmopolitan Asia came to life
The economist John Maynard Keynes, writing of the dangers of men with ideas, was echoing lessons long learnt by the West.
‘India must keep distance from China-West conflict’
India would be making a big mistake if it allowed itself to get dragged into a Western anti-China alliance,” warns Martin Jacques, author of the international bestseller When China Rules the World.
