Author: B Shantanu

Obama and the Pakistan Connection – The Missing Bits

I was alerted to this article earlier yesterday. It raises some hard (and disturbing) questions about the purpose and the context of US President-Elect Obama’s visit to Pakistan in the early 80s. Some excerpts...

Remembering Our Heroes

Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan and Hawaldar Gajendra Singh, both NSG commandos, laid down their lives today (28th Nov ’08), defending their people and their country in Mumbai. They are not the first of our brave...

Politics in the Time of War*

From PM too late, Advani gone: …Manmohan Singh flew to Mumbai this evening only an hour after L.K. Advani, who had been insisting the two go together in a show of unity, had taken off....

Quote of the Day

. “Before I could reach there, the terrorists who had attacked one of the hospitals, the Cama Hospital, had left and those who attacked the railway station had also left” – Union Home Minister...

Terrorist Attack in Mumbai – Part II

Some observations, rather hurried..more to come later. To the best of my knowledge, this was the first terrorist attack in recent times that involved hostages and a direct attack on the police The targetting...