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For the past decade or so, much of Indian strategic thinking and discourse has visibly shifted from its Pakistan-centric focus to study Sino-Indian relations. The rise of China and its implications for India is now a preferred area of serious study.  At the same time Chinese inroads into India’s strategic…

Today (7th March 2013), BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, during a discussion in the Lok Sabha on the Lankan Tamils’ issue, read out a couple of paragraphs from my 2009 book: Sri Lanka: From War to Peace. Ever since then I have been receiving a number of messages from friends and…

Re-posting a piece I wrote barely a month ago if only to celebrate unarguably Independent India’s greatest soldier–Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw. Over the next one year starting today–3rd April 2013–the Indian Army, if not the Indian government, has promised to organise various functions and events to commemorate the centenary of the legend…