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The appointment of Ajit Doval as India’s 5th National Security Adviser (NSA) on Friday was never in doubt once Narandra Modi swept to power and took office as Prime Minister earlier this week. For the past nine years, he was heading the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), a think tank known to…

Now that every Ram, Rahim, Ricky and their uncle has given sound and comprehensive advice to Narendrabhai Modi on how to run the government, how to bifurcate, merge and in some cases, abolish ministries, let me attempt to flag issues that need urgent attention. While many strategic gurus have spoken…

As the country hurtles towards the denouement of perhaps the longest elections in recent memory, two seemingly unrelated but important events occurred on Monday. One, the outgoing UPA government decided not to go ahead with constituting the ‘Snoopgate’ Commission to probe allegations of spying against a woman levelled against BJP’s prime ministerial…