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Ashok K Mehta
Ashok K Mehta is a retired Lt General of the Indian Army. He writes extensively on defence matters and anchors Defence Watch on Doordarshan

Myanmar coup cauldron simmers
Wednesday, 07 April 2021 | Ashok K Mehta
The nation’s under-20 youth and ethnic armed organisations are solidly backing the unarmed civil disobedience movement In his book, Coup d’Etat, Edward Luttwak says that the coup is a more widespread way of changing governments than elections. In Myanmar, it is the coup-maker, the military itself, which has rubbished “rigged elections”...
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PM’s Bangladesh visit will reinvigorate bond
24 March 2021 | Ashok K Mehta -
Pact price less than cost of strained ties
10 March 2021 | Ashok K Mehta -
Kailash card used, Depsang in limbo
24 February 2021 | Ashok K Mehta -
Time to set our house in order
10 February 2021 | Ashok K Mehta -
Arunachal intrusions a big cause for worry
27 January 2021 | Ashok K Mehta -
Opportunistic Oli?
14 January 2021 | Ashok K Mehta