The two Vs together! INS Viraat & Vikramaditya: High Quality Video & Pictures
High Quality video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olJopSrK0O0&feature=youtu.be
Indian journo, writing on India-Pakistan issue in a Chinese newspaper. A first for me!
Christmas eve meeting first step toward resuming India-Pakistan dialogue (http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/835886.shtml#.UsoI0vuMBss) Global Times | 2014-1-5 23:03:02 By Nitin A Gokhale Illustration: Liu Rui/GT As the world welcomes the New Year, Indian and Pakistani armies may want to leave behind the bad memories of 2013. It…
History & evolution of the omnipotent ‘A’ in Pak
Prussia was not a country with an army, but an army with a country. When Friedrich Leopold Freiherr von Schrötter (1743–1815), made this statement in the 18th century at the height of Prussian Army’s prowess in Europe, he would not have imagined that many ‘seminarists’ would freely bandy the same…
From my scrapbook: An interview with Atal Behari Vajpayee in 1985!
Look what I found in my scrapbook!! An interview with Atal Behari Vajpayee circa 1985!He was visiting Guwahati in the immediate aftermath of the Lok Sabha elections in December 1984. The BJP was down to 2 seats in the Lok Sabha. He himself was defeated by the young and dashing…
Time to look at US as India’s major strategic challenge
In the standard national security narrative that all of us contribute to, the usual instinct is to concentrate on two or three of India’s major strategic challenges: the rise of China and New Delhi’s past experience with Beijing; the ever present shadow of Pakistan and India’s diminishing clout in the…