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IndiaPolitics

One Year On: Ladakh still awaits Development

by Vaibhavi Pingale9 August 202016 August 2020 4 min read

On 5th August 2020 Ladakh completed one year as a Union Territory (UT) of India as a result of last year’s abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution of India.

Defence & SecurityForeign PolicyPolitics

Kargil: A Win of Diplomacy or War? – The Secret back-channel of ‘Vijay Diwas’

by Sugandh Priya Ojha26 July 20206 August 2020 6 min read

Kargil victory was the victory of the bravery of our sons and daughters. It was victory of India’s strength and patience. It was victory of India’s sanctity and discipline. It was victory of every Indian’s expectations

Society

The Curious Case of Arundhati Roy: Decoding the Politics Behind the ‘Art’

by Manishankar Prasad25 May 20209 June 2020 4 min read

The purpose of this post is to offer fodder neither to the extreme camps, India’s cultural nationalist wings which detest and deride her as an ‘Urban Naxal’ for her Kashmir views, nor to the fan club groupings on India’s liberal arts campuses.

PoliticsSouth Asia

Discussion on PoK Needs to be Constructive, not Destructive

by S Raghavan12 May 20209 June 2020 4 min read

When it took a war to bring an element of clarity, can regaining PoK happen through negotiated settlement over a table, or will it demand a full scale war?

Foreign PolicyPolitics

India’s ‘Grand Strategy’ – As Good As It Gets

by N V Subramanian14 December 20199 June 2020 5 min read

India’s problem with a lack of general direction goes deep. You could give it a military or geopolitical dimension by calling it absent “grand strategy”, but nations cannot be boxed into narrow constructs such as these. Vision is better.

IndiaPoliticsSouth Asia

Six decades of Indus Water Treaty: What India Should Push For

by Nivedita Khandekar27 August 201912 August 2020 4 min read

Once India stops its somersaults while dealing with Pakistan over IWT, it needs to consider current vital issues such as climate change and e-flows while pushing for basin approach.

IndiaPoliticsSouth Asia

Six decades of Indus Water Treaty: No more place for India’s flip flop

by Nivedita Khandekar20 August 201912 August 2020 5 min read

Indus is a phenomenal river that spans a wide geography and comes with a great history, ancient and recent.

Society

“I would like the common Indian to look at Kashmiriyat in exactly the way it was meant to be.”

by Col Sunil Brijkrishan11 August 20199 August 2020 7 min read

Col Sunil Brijkrishan is an Army Veteran, having served in the Indian Army for more than two decades. Kashmiri by birth and Indian at heart.

PoliticsSouth Asia

Six decades of Indus Water Treaty: No more place for India’s flip flop

by Nivedita Khandekar11 August 20199 August 2020 4 min read

When it comes to implementation of the IWT, India must stop its somersaults while dealing with Pakistan and de-link its actions with the Kashmir situation.

Defence & SecurityPoliticsSouth Asia

Decoding Imran Khan’s Admission on Terrorists Operating from Pakistani Soil

by Rajeev Sharma11 August 20199 August 2020 4 min read

On July 24, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan stunned the world when he candidly admitted that there were “30,000 to 40,000 armed people” in his country “who have been trained to fight in some part of Afghanistan or Kashmir”