Year: 2018
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50 Years of R&AW – Is India’s foreign spy agency dreaded or dreadful?
Is R&AW dreaded or dreadful, effective or affectlessly irrelevant, a proactive shaper of India’s history and foreign policy or a bumbling reactionary force? As R&AW turns 50 today, it is worth investigating…
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Syrian militants secretly flown to Afghanistan, China raises a battalion
Are the Americans likely to walk away simply because they are exasperated? After having spent a trillion dollars, losing thousands of lives, losing face – so soon after their reversal in Syria…
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Anti Semitism rises when populism lurches to the Right
I had barely registered that the sword of Damocles hung on the heads of over four million people, mostly Muslims, in Assam by a very Orwellian sounding National Register of Citizens, when…
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Afghanistan, not India, will be Imran Khan’s priority until 2019
The new Prime Minister will be pragmatic. He will not seek to impose a moral code on his armed forces. But he will draw some very firm red lines and these red…
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Rafale’s extraordinary ‘Make In India’ deal
The Indian tax payers’ have funded the Rafale deal. The government has executed the deal on behalf of the Indian citizens’ to strengthen India’s national security. Bolstering the capabilities of the Indian…
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Entire Opposition join hands even as doves in RAW and ISI coo
Two mutually reinforcing images from last week may well define the next phase in national affairs. It is too early to call them game changers but they have considerable potential.