Outlook

Perfidious attempt to give away Siachen is on

by Nitin A Gokhale

10 Feb/13

General, Outlook

Outlook has a cover story on Siachen and Kargil. I have a column in it, pasted below. OPINION The Wages Of Peace Kargil was actually about Siachen. India must remember that. NITIN A. GOKHALE http://outlookindia.com/article.aspx?283856 Last July, sitting in Dras in the middle of a two-day celebration of…

An Act’s End

by Nitin A Gokhale

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13 Oct/12

General, NDTV, Outlook

http://outlookindia.com/article.aspx?282591 ILLUSTRATION BY SORIT BORDER ISSUES At Act’s End In the theatre of war, State neglect threatens to rub salt into sore wounds NITIN A. GOKHALE Special Issue: 1962 The China Disaster Arunachal Pradesh, arguably the most scenic of the seven Northeast states, has always stood apart from its neighbours. Not just because it…

NORTH-EAST: Big Brother And The Seven Sisters

by Nitin A Gokhale

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28 Aug/12

General, Outlook

More than 15 years ago, Krishna Prasad, now Outlook magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, me and a photographer colleague, T. Narayan had traveled through three states of the North-east following a massacre of non-trial Bengalis in Tripura. Apart from the killing, we tried to make sense of the region’s varied challenges and…

How Tiger Hill was captured–from the Memory bank

by Nitin A Gokhale

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04 Jul/12

General, Outlook

Between 4 June and 26 July 1999, I was one of the lucky journalists to have been in the Kargil, Muskoh, Drass, Batalik sectors when the India-Pakistan standoff was on. Reporting for Outlook, a weekly magazine meant I didn’t write a day-to-day account of the conflict. The absence of…

What fellow officers said about Lt. Col Prasad Purohit

by Nitin A Gokhale

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30 Jun/12

General, NDTV, Outlook

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/lt-colonel-purohit-did-the-army-sell-short-an-effective-officer-237995?pfrom=home-lateststories One by one, 59 witnesses, all from the Army, have told a Court of Inquiry – step one of Army’s legal process– why they believe Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit was just doing his job by fraternising with right-wing extremists. Lt Col Purohit was arrested in November 2008 for a…