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Contours of India’s national security
A strong India needs to reimagine its national security fundamentals This is the first article in my new column series In-Security. The series will concern itself...
Hacked and shamed
The website of the National Security Guards (NSG) was successfully attacked on July 2, 2011. Some reports mention that the mail system of the organisation was also...
The man who made strategy
Krishnaswamy Subrahmanyam, doyen of modern Indian strategic thinkers passed away on Feb 2nd, 2011, at the age of 82. Rich tributes have been written by those...
Correcting years of neglect
South Asia is the second most unstable region in the world, and may even overtake West Asia to reach the first place. Among the world’s major democracies, India...
Who’s the Karmapa?
The controversy over just who is the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa has dogged the Kagyu sect for nearly three decades, after the 16th Karmapa died in 1981. Both claimants...
Quietening on the Eastern front
After thirteen years of ceasefire and and fifty six rounds of talks between the Naga insurgent group, the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Issac-Muivah) or...
The new agency in town
Soon after the audacious 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram announced the formation of National Investigation Agency (NIA) as the...
Kind words and guns
India’s diplomatic options in Pakistan seem to have run their course. A coercive Indian diplomatic assault on Pakistan has ended up in a slanging match between...
What Kautilya would say
Some aspects of the relevance of the Arthashastra in the contemporary world Balbir S Sihag Kautilya understood some basic human tendencies and limitations inimical...
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