Author: B Shantanu

News thats really not *news*

Pakistan still training terror outfits: India “….National Security Advisor M K Narayanan recently said one of the greatest dangers India faced was terror camps being run on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border by the Al-Qaeda and the...

A draft policy framework for tomorrow’s India

Many of you read and commented on Sanjeev Sabhlok’s guest post on this blog re. the Freedom Team. The team has grown to about 25 members since then and there is an active and...

The spreading tentacles of terror

Indore has been in the news before…but this time it is back for all the wrong reasons. From NDTV: “Arrested SIMI chief planned terror strikes” “…Arrested SIMI chief Safdar Nagori had called a meeting in Indore...

Getting obsessive about Arunachal…

Some of you may think I am getting obsessed with Aruncahal Pradesh, China or the North-East…but this issue deserves far more attention that it ever gets… As I said in one of my previous...

Happy “Holi”! Be careful with colours; Save water

While I am personally not very fond of Holi, it is no doubt one of the most popular (and certainly most colourful) festivals in northern India. “Holi” is a two-day (or strictly speaking a...