Category: India & Its Neighbours

Sign of times to come…?

Came across this news story yesterday: Nepal Muslims demand seats in national election Excerpts: “…A leading Muslim group in Nepal said on Saturday it would organise street protests if the government does not meet...

Can I turn “right” here, please?

Atlantean has written a great post on the deafening silence of mainstream English language media (notably TOI, IBN Live and DNA on the declassified CIA documents (in full here) that reveal the extent to which the Left “looked...

You can keep out the infidels; not the State

Chanced upon this nugget from Saeed Naqvi’s piece “Beijing Diary” in Outlook’s latest issue 25th Jun ’07. Describing an altercation between a policeman and “a young man with a wispy beard” in inside Xian’s great...

“Greatest Neighbour” that does not play by the rules?

These two news items were posted within hours of each other on IBN: First headline: China is India’s best neighbour: PM  – slightly mis-leading headline…what he actually said was that China was “India’s “greatest...

Pakistan, Taliban & the “War on Terror”…yawn

Thanks to Anirban for alerting me to “Pakistan on a perilous path” by Mohammad Shehzad (a journalist based in Islamabad). It reiterates the points that have been made by me & several other commentators in...