Politics by other means

Thursday 20 August '09

Kargil had been reduced to a political pointscoring matter. Finally, we seem ready to give the armed forces their due...

Farewell to arms?

Friday 14 August '09

The nature of war is changing. The fact of it isn’t....

Force divider

Friday 15 May '09

It’s hard for a frustrated and aggrieved military to remain apolitical

Defensible, not defiance

Tuesday 7 October '08

Let’s ask why the chiefs were driven to questioning the pay panel

The nation and its 40 hectares

Friday 29 August '08

On August 8 when Syed Ahmed Shah Geelani was shouting pro-Pakistan and religious slogans in Srinagar, about 100 km...

The troops’ general

Saturday 28 June '08

I was a young captain when I first met the legendary Field Marshal S.H.F.J Manekshaw...

Moment of the army

Saturday 5 January '08

Benazir Bhutto was a real, modern-day Daughter of the East. Dynastic, educated abroad, liberal and moderate...

Read the 123 fine print and rest easy

Monday 20 August '07

Given the widely divergent strategic goals and policies followed by India and the US in the past...

Don’t politicise troop reduction in J&K

Saturday 24 March '07

Deciding such sensitive issues without professional consultations or by using street pressure is dangerous

Fixing the Afghan wobble

Thursday 10 August '06

NATO’s presence in south and east Afghanistan will improve the unstable situation

Women in uniform are valued

Thursday 29 June '06

The recent tendency to play political football with the army was unfortunate