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Why India Must Embrace Covert Elimination of Terror Leaders Post Operation Sindoor, there is far too much of jingoistic posturing going on between the Indian and Pakistani media. Maybe, it’s the [...]

India’s Response to Terrorism and the Fight Against Misinformation India can be rightly proud of its diversity. That is, diversity of the kind that can unite into one whole when called upon, as [...]

A Call for a United India One positive trend discernible during the aftermath of the Pahalgam tragedy was the near absence of attacks on Muslims or Kashmiris across the country by Hindu fanatical [...]

Film Review I am inherently sceptic about Indian war movies, for their lack of realism and overdose of jingoism and misplaced melodrama. Therefore, when a friend recommended insistently that I [...]

A Fauji’s Dilemma The note was terse, “Please come to the admin block and pacify the workers – We need your help. Tom.” Scribbled on office stationery, it was delivered to me by the company [...]

A Swimming Gala and A Dancing Encounter Punjab is awfully hot in summer. A poolside evening party therefore, sounded a splendid idea. The large swimming pool in Patiala where it was being held [...]

A Battle without a Cause The latest political slugfest going on in India on the three-language versus two-language system of education is rather exasperating. Is it that important an issue that [...]

A recipe for Indo-Pak reconciliation? One of the most interesting friendships I struck in my life was with a Pakistani soldier, I mean a former one, after I too had left the army. It was half a [...]

A Soldier Tale He was a problem child for his parents. At school, he was a backbencher and naughty. The parents had no great hopes about him, the teachers wrote him off. Nevertheless, he was full [...]

A MARVEL AND A DISASTER The other day, I had the opportunity to listen to an excellent discourse by a nonagenarian freedom fighter and dedicated Gandhian on the Indian Constitution and the [...]