Archives for “Terrorism & Pakistan”

Wanted: Vintage Military Action

35th attempt in less than a year. 132-plus infiltration attempts again, in less than a year. Says this Indian Express report. Less than a fortnight after Pakistan promised ...


The Game of Bogeys

I spent most of the last week working behind the scenes to foolproof my blog against its periodic bursts of becoming not reachable. Hence I ...


Kanchan Gupta's superb piece on why it won't pay to give Iran the non-permanent security council seat. The foremost, nay only reason is the rabid ...


The news of "braveheart" MC Sharma's tragic death is a few hours old now. Another story of a firehearted warrior dying on the call of ...


Deepavali Gift

This attack is an advance Deepavali gift to the Indian people from the kind folks of the Indian Mujahideen. I can picture a top gun ...


The Devil and the Actor

It's the season of Minority drum-beating again. If you are a conspiracy theorist, you will link Shabana Azmi's interview with Karan Thapar to the recent ...


Superb Article on Islamofascism

Kanchan Gupta, in the Pioneerabout why it doesn't pay to ignore and/or deny the real threat of Islamofascism, how it is similar if not the ...


Maut ka Saudagar?

Elections in India is fun time because you can mudsling at will and get away with it. That was the case when the Italian bosswoman ...


My Dear Dr. Manmohan Singh, I don't care if you read much less respond to this. You are after all, another inconsequential pawn who might be ...


Burn, my Beloved City

Update: A friend I was chatting with just told me that another bomb, placed inside a bucket opposite the Forum mall was defused in a ...


Will this be Banned in India?

The Indian Express reports A play inspired by a short story written in the 1960s, which prophesised the rise of religious extremists and bombing of mosques ...


Pragati: June 2008

The June 2008 issue of Pragati is out. Download your copy now. This issue carries a modified version of my article on the perils of lending ...


Capitalizing an Assassination

Earlier this month, Priyanka Vadra Gandhi met Nalini to "come to terms with her father's death," etc. Noble sentiments. A heart-warming gesture. However, not everybody ...


Nothing New

So Benazir Bhutto is dead. A step lower in Pakistan’s descent into anarchy. The biggest beneficiary of her gruesome killing is the media, which will ...


The innocuous, almost ridiculous, demand for massive historical damages has smouldered into an international loss of face for Malaysia. Purely realpolitik terms, this was easily ...


Pakistan Emergency: Two Views

Two views on the Musharraf Emergency. Diametrically divergent. One based on facts, the other based on bias and concealed facts and symptoms. In his two ...


The Economist’s ignorance about India is on display again. A consistent display of poor research and lack of awareness of basic facts about the country ...


None to Mourn Dead Hindus

I’ve decided to be large-hearted and forgive Tehelka for its expose--it is election season and Tehelka needs the money to fund its continual quest for ...


Musharraf Rocks

Look at the brighter side of Musharraf's Emergency declaration: at least a apparition of democracy existed in Pakistan. It all started with Justice "albatross" Ifthekar ...


Terror and Traffic Jams

Another terror attack in Ajmer. Regular terror visits on India are in the danger of quickly going out of fashion. Frankly, I don’t have the ...


This incident just reaffirms--doesn't shock me--that all is well in the Islamic Republic of Jammu & Kashmir. In what could turn out to be a major ...


Plumbing Serious Depths

And the award for the Height of Patriotism goes to a certain Chintamani Mahapatra. Like you, I’ve never heard of the eminence before. He has ...


Pankaj Mishra wants us to believe that Islamic terrorism is the product of Western imperialism. The whole article is comedy par excellence but it’s both ...


Switch the Channels

I hate these irritants...like unwanted commercial breaks that disturb life’s endless party. Who wants to know how many infidels innocent citizens were killed? We have ...


Claude Arpi, one of the finest observers of strategy, defence and policy affairs shows how deadly the business-pleasure mixture is. Reproduced from the Pioneer in full. Read and weep. How a man whom a lot of liberals consider ...