Category: India & Its Neighbours

W’end Reading: Fake Notes, Trash, Brahma-Saraswati and AQ Khan

This is what I am reading this weekend. How Bengal towns are becoming transit points for fake notes West Bengal’s intelligence agencies have expressed concern that Pakistan-and Bangladesh-based racketeers are using the state’s Murshidabad...

China can take Arunachal in 48 hours…

…and we are in no hurry to do anything about it. Excerpts from a very worrying article by Suman Sharma in Open Magazine (Hat Tip: Centerof right; emphasis mine): Repeated violations of the Indo-Chinese...

Weekend Reading: Indonesia Special

This weekend, some thought-provoking readings on Indonesia with special reference to radical Islam and Indonesia’s Hindu & Buddhist past and traditions. Why Indonesia? Because events that are unfolding in this country – home to...