Relationship advice

Monday 16 November '09

In a bit of uncharacteristic hyperbole on the eve of his 2005 meeting with President Bush, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared...

Keep the troops there

Saturday 12 July '08

Should India withdraw its troops from UN peacekeeping forces?

IAF, know yourself

Wednesday 21 May '08

Sometimes seemingly innocuous events can trigger major changes - burglars breaking into the Watergate hotel...

Speaking truth to rising power

Thursday 8 May '08

Can India realise its future possibilities without knowing its past? Does it have the institutional capacities to fulfil its ambitions?

An army for tomorrow

Tuesday 29 January '08

The army chief’s comments on conscription should focus attention on the severe shortage of officers in all three services. To attract the idealistic and enterprising, the military must change its organisational DNA.

Let generals have their stories...

Thursday 7 June '07

... but the Indian people have a right to know the facts. Problem is, India does not have any post-Independence military historian of note

The unbearable injustice of forgetting

Tuesday 9 January '07

Who’s the real hero? Aamir Khan saluting India Gate in ‘Rang de Basanti’, or Gurdeep Singh Salaria who died fighting militants in Kashmir on this day 11 years ago? And what does this have to do with a National War Memorial still unbuilt?