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DefenceIgniting the ‘cold start’ doctrine
Are we ready for a 21st-century war? The Army chief, General Deepak Kapoor’s reported comment on the revision of India’s “cold start”...
GovernanceGandhian dilemma in military leadership
Imay be laughed out even before I answer the question. However, I grew up in a family conditioned by Gandhian thoughts, when my...
State ScanTamil angst or separatism?
THOUGH Uttarakhand had 21,966 protests, the highest number in the year 2016, it was Tamil Nadu with 20,450 protests—at the rate of 47...
national securityThe Last Post for the Soldier
The trend in democratic nations is to downsize armies, by choice or necessity These are not happy days for armies in the democratic...
GovernanceLooking for alibis, not action
I am no great admirer of Henry Kissinger, President Richard Nixon’s Man Friday. But his pithy remark, “America needs a strategy, not an...
GovernanceFirst, right to childhood
The Central and state governments, and the people as a whole have to be involved in making the RTE Act work High expectations...
national securityOf honey traps and intelligence
Human frailties make the use of sex in espionage but natural, as both past and contemporary history show Three decades ago, Michael J...
MilestonesOn a summer afternoon in 1967, I went to swim at the army club in Pune (then known as Poona). I found a...
GovernanceWhose witness, anyway?
The Indian judicial environment is loaded against those who depose in court against criminals On May 5, 2007, a mob of supporters of...
DefenceMCP vs Feminist tug-o’-war
During the past three decades, the traditional male orientation of the armed forces all over the world is undergoing a sex change. As...
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