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Guarantors vs enforcers
The brawl between police officers and lawyers over a parking lot was the manifestation of a misplaced sense of entitlement at work. The episode should lead to corrective introspection Submission to an inviolable sense of justice, order and probity ought to be at the heart of professionals rendering policing and legal...
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War on terror not over yet
02 November 2019 | Bhopinder Singh -
Turkish non-delights
26 October 2019 | Bhopinder Singh -
A reflection of past deeds
12 October 2019 | Bhopinder Singh -
Cheque book diplomacy
03 October 2019 | Bhopinder Singh -
Betraying the Uighurs
16 September 2019 | Bhopinder Singh -
The fear within
30 August 2019 | Bhopinder Singh -
A haunting silence
22 August 2019 | Bhopinder Singh
Temporary reprieve
It would be premature for either the US to trust the Pakistanis or vice versa as history suggests that both nations ultimately succumb to their basic instincts Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been walking the tightrope of the genealogical and evolutionary compulsions that are unique to his nation. His jazba...
Rising maritime tension
Amid the Chinese calculus of geo-strategic manoeuvres, the most vulnerable ‘choke point’ lurks near Indian waters — the ultra narrow and practically unavoidable Malacca Straits The US-China vitriol has shifted back from the trade tables to its more familiar turf of the South China Sea, where China has provocatively tested anti-ship...
Don’t deflect truths
For far too long, Indian politics has been about defending the indefensible even as optics warrant a certain obligatory introspection, if not a graceful acceptance There have been two distinct ways of defending the indefensible in the Indian political narrative across partisan lines. Individuals/groups operating under larger political denominations or patronage...
Iran is no pushover
The nation today is very different from what it was in 1991 or 2003. Societally, militarily, diplomatically and even morally, it is a very strong country In a speech in January 1991, the then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had invoked a popular idiomatic expression, exhorting his military and simultaneously warning the...
Sun sets on greatest alliance
The ‘special relationship’ between the UK and the US is elusive. Trump’s visit to Britain nailed the optics of an empire that was wilting under the weight of an ‘unequal’ relation Romance and nostalgia surrounding the grandeur of the British empire in the 19th and 20th century is predicated on “the...
India’s dilemma
Now that a new Government has been sworn in, India will do well to solve the quandary — to choose between US coercion and Iran — and do so without hurting either side The dual optics of pushing through a $8-billion arms deal for Saudi Arabia, using a rarely invoked provision...
Thwart the juggernaut
By signing an executive order to protect its networks from foreign espionage, the US has drawn the first blood on what was hitherto whispered as a need to counter Chinese ambitions US President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order on ‘Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply...
