Voyages as a naval cadet along Indian coasts and A&N Islands
I graduated from the National Defence Academy (NDA) in December of 1971. The war for the liberation of Bangladesh (East Pakistan) was on at...
The rise of Uddhav Thackeray
It started with the usual acrimony just before the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. The Bharatiya Janta Party's (BJP) perenially junior partner the Shiv...
Will Nitish Kumar survive the Bihar Assembly Election 2020?
The emerging theme of Bihar Assembly Election 2020 appears to be defeat Nitish Kumar at all cost. Nitish is the current Chief Minister of...
The silence of the Liberal Indian Strategic Coterie on American Imperialism
Against China, India’s liberal strategic and diplomatic fraternity support the US, whose flippant wars and unilateralism actually qualify as “thuggish” and “destabilising” more than anything else.
How PM Modi’s Communalism & Imperial Hangover Defeats his Own Act East & Neighbourhood First Outreaches
A series of fall outs with all India’s smaller neighbours have characterised the diplomatic scenario under PM Narendra Modi. Institutionalised condescending diplomacy from Congress...