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Every weekend, I write a column for ABP News(abplive.in). Here’s the collection for May.  Why foreigners see India differently now Sun, May 31, 2015 (http://www.abplive.in/author/nitingokhale/2015/05/31/article604342.ece/Why-foreigners-see-India-differently-now )   Very often, domestic politics and TV studios-based media narrative makes us forget the fact that for the first time in 30 years, there…

On 15 April 2015, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court said in its order after hearing a bail application of Lt Col Prasad Purohit, the Indian Army Officer, accused of being involved in a bomb blast in Malegaon: “Since the occurrence is of the year 2008 and nearly seven years…

1. http://nitinagokhale.blogspot.in/2015/04/cut-your-coat-according-to-your-cloth.html2. http://www.abplive.in/author/nitingokhale/2015/05/02/article574902.ece/Experts-to-suggest-simplified-defence-acquisitions3. http://www.abplive.in/author/nitingokhale/2015/04/19/article561637.ece/Procrastination-is-no-longer-a-default-option4. http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/standpoint-improvement-of-border-roads-is-non-negotiable-20825145. http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/standpoint-perform-or-perish-is-the-new-mantra-in-the-defence-ministry-20782416. http://nitinagokhale.blogspot.in/2015/04/fiscal-reality-truncates-mountain.html

The killing of 8 security personnel — seven Assam Rifles soldiers and one jawan of a Territorial Army unit — in Nagaland’s Mon district on Sunday morning made it to India’s television screens almost 12 hours after it occurred, once again demonstrating the low priority one of India’s most important…

A raging debate has ensued in the defence fraternity on issues raging around the Mountain Strike Corps (17 Corps) and its size after Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar stated that the originally envisaged plan cannot be implemented since there is very little money available at the moment. I have been a…