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Writing in The Daily Pioneer, Sushant K. Singh offers his perspective on the recent reports on civil-military conflict,
It has been asserted by most military veterans — who can be safely assumed as surrogates for serving [...]
For the record
In an op-ed in Indian Express, Nitin Pai and I argue in favor India’s intervention in Afghanistan, and address some of the concerns our previous article in Pragati had raised,
The government of President Hamid Karzai and members of the erstwhile Northern Alliance have long argued for India to scale up its involvement in [...]
Pray, where do the figures come from?
Leave aside the wooly-headed conclusions for a minute or the nonsense about India owing something to Pakistan. What is particularly remarkable about Rajmohan Gandhi’s op-ed in The Hindustan Times is the amazing confidence with which he marshals figures bereft of any actual empirical work,
But the violent extremists who blast [...]
What’s the hurry?
In an op-ed in the Daily Pioneer, Ramavtar Yadav and Sushant K. Singh argue that government should reject the idea of talks with Maoists
It is worth remembering that on both the occasions when talks were held, the Maoists were losing ground and were on the run. The talks provided a breather to them; [...]
The home minister gets it right
Addressing the Chief Minister’s Conference on internal security, home minister, P Chidambaram makes an important point,
We believe in the two-pronged approach of development and police action. However, the naxalites are anti-development and have targeted the very instruments of development – school buildings, roads, telephone towers etc. They know that development [...]
Cart before the horse
In an op-ed in the Indian Express, Sushant K. Singh and I argue that without ensuring security in Maoist affected areas, government’s development package is destined to fail,
In states where even policemen are shying away from serving in Maoist zones, is it reasonable to believe that the local population would risk their [...]
Fewer troops in the Kashmiri heartland
In the July issue of Pragati, the Indian National Interest Review, Sushant K. Singh and I argue that resolution to the Kashmiri problem requires an innovative approach which emphasizes the healing process while respecting the security needs of the state,
With the improvement in the security—especially in population centres—and the election [...]
Resolving the AFSPA conundrum
In an op-ed in the Indian Express, Sushant K. Singh and I argue that New Delhi needs to seize the political space in Kashmir by seriously considering the contentious issue of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA),
Leaving aside the emotive debate and the separatists’ Machiavellian tactics, has the time come to [...]
Towards a better polity
By Harsh Gupta
The BJP is the only party which can be both truly nationalist and truly liberal – and while it has many defects it is much closer to those ideals, compared to other parties. The other parties are pseudo-secular and throwback leftists- these communal socialists believe in vote banks and socially [...]
The Indian government knows it. But it can hardly afford to tell the Indian people, especially in an election year, that it is essentially powerless to punish the perpetrators of an attack ofMumbai’s scale. Therefore, its entire outraged is designed to serve one and only purpose: Extract any concession from Pakistan so that it can claim before the people of India that it did better than the previously equally incompetent government
