Shankar Roychowdhury

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Shankar Roychowdhury

26/11: Never again

December 7, 1941, the date of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, is America’s Day of Infamy.

Burden of proof

As the story of the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society unfolds byte by byte in the media, a torrent of public criticism regarding misuse of defence land, and gross violations of building and environmental norms has indicted the Army as the sole perpetrator, causing it to retreat shell shocked into its bunker. But even worse perhaps

China’s Astrashastra

“(S)ince no nation threatens China, one must wonder: Why this growing investment? Why these continuing large and expanding arms purchases? Why these continuing robust deployments?”

1962 redux?

All wars commence in the mind, and escalate with words.

Reclaiming Kashmir

First there was an all-party delegation and now a group of interlocutors under the chairmanship of an “eminent person” will begin the process of sustained dialogue with political parties and groups in

The pirate’s ally

News reports, mainly in the Kerala media, reporting arrests on May 28 by the Indian Coast Guard of a group of 11 Somali nationals, allegedly pirates, in the Lakshadweep Islands, drew fleeting attentio

The quest for peace

The separatist agitation on the streets of Srinagar must be recognised for what it actually is — a new phase of the proxy war with the Pakistan Army, which is trying out a revised strategy after its earlier efforts to detach the Kashmir Valley from India by direct war, insurgency and terrorism all failed. Within a democracy, if grievances are justifiable and legitimate, demonstrations of public anger demand acceptance, acknowledgement and redressal. But if, as in this case, a violent agitation seeks to

COIN has two sides

Nangarhar province in Afghanistan, Nord Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Al Anbar province in Iraq are the themes of three case studies presented in a Rand Corporation report tit

Vijay, Vikram, vichar

Kargil Vijay Divas on July 26 every year commemorates the fifth battle of Kargil in 1999 and brings before the country, particularly its military community, an occasion to retrospect on the past, refl

Badla for Bangladesh

The country wishes our foreign minister well when he meets his Pakistani counterpart on the sidelines of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) meeting in Islamabad on July 15.

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