Category: India & Its Neighbours

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...

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...

The path to becoming a “super-power”

I recently came across this excellent article by Capt Bharat Verma on How India can acquire great power status. Unfortunately, knowing the way our politicians thinks and our system works, this analysis is likely...

*Must Read* links for the weekend

Starting with this one by Sandeep which includes quotes from MF Husain’s recent interview. The two that I found most interesting were: (emphasis mine): MF Husain: “…Later, in Hyderabad, in 1968, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia suggested I paint...

Some startling stats from the eastern front…

A report in yesterday’s Telegraph (14th Feb) has some surprising statistics re. the growth of Muslim population in the border districts of Assam, Bihar and West Bengal. The numbers speak for themselves. Source: http://telegraphindia.com/1080213/images/13zzpopulationbig.jpg...