Category: History
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Who Really Won the India-Pakistan 1965 War? (Published by The Quint)
2019 marks the 54th anniversary of the 1965 war that both India and Pakistan claim to have won. The truth perhaps, lies somewhere in between the chest thumping.
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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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Forgetting the most influential non-political Indian on his 100th birthday
This column is not to recount R N Kao’s successes or failures; he saw both in good measures. For despite the paucity, there have been some books both by his colleagues and…
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China briefing diplomats On Doklam: Doval must follow up for India
After his return from Beijing, the National Security Adviser, Ajit Doval, must brief the diplomatic corps in New Delhi which so far has heard only from the Chinese here and in important…
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Carnage at Qalandar Shrine: The Shia, Sunni, Sufi triangle
The suicide attack on the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, in Sindh, which killed nearly 100 devotees last week, is unlikely to dampen the Dhamaal spirit, the ecstatic dance performed in the…
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Declassified docs: Soviet Penetration Program in India
Soviets are deeply involved in the Indian political process through covert contributions to the treasuries of political parties as well as to individual politicians.