Category: India & Its Neighbours

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...

Jihadi attack in Assam?

A dozen bombs, at least fifty dead and more than three hundred injured… The government remains clueless… “It is very early to make a conclusion but ULFA has a history of triggering serial blasts,” Assam’s...

Nanopost of the day…

…in which I get annoyed by Praful Bidwai‘s gratuitous reference to “ethnic cleansing” and “communal clashes” while conveniently forgetting Assam where these words have taken on an entirely different meaning…and the scale of human misery has...

The not so “communal” clashes in Assam

For the last few days, I have been following the twists and turns of the “clashes” in Assam with great interest…Not least because I have a very strong personal bond with the region but...

Excerpts from “Art of War”

Excerpts from a review of Arun Shourie’s “Are we deceiving ourselves again?” by Brahma Chellaney: …having forsaken the Kautilyan principles, has proven no match to China’s Sun Tzu-style statecraft. From Nehru’s grudging acceptance of...