Author: B Shantanu

China’s investments and expansion in Africa…

Good article from the Sunday Times on China’s activities in Africa and how they are perciveved by the local populations. **** The Sunday Times July 16, 2006 RW JOHNSON, CAPE TOWN  IN the past...

UK funds behind LeT?…

Just picked this rediff report. It suggests that a large part of financing for LeT and Jaish etc comes from UK. The amounts are in several millions of pounds (one report says upto $15m). To...

“India Through V.S.Naipaul’s Eyes”

Excerpts from an interview of  Sir V S Naipaul in 2001, reproduced below. From “India: A Million Mutinies Now” *** Excerpts Begin *** Rachael Kohn: When did you first have an inkling that you wanted...

Neither LeT nor SIMI…actually it is RAW

Came across this extraordinary article yesterday by someone called K Sidharth in which he says:  “It cannot be excluded that yesterday’s atrocity in Mumbai was organized or facilitated by agents provocateurs working for one...