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Will we ever confront China, call its bluff?
Despite all our aggressive posturing and chest-thumping, humble pie seems to be our favourite dish, at least when it comes to China Mark Twain once wrote, “An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.” It appears General Naravane, the former Chief of Army Staff, is extremely keen to get that...
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Troubled times for Neighbours
24 January 2023 | Deepak Sinha -
Fear is the key to rule minds, or is it?
15 January 2022 | Deepak Sinha -
In the footsteps of Donald Trump
26 January 2021 | Deepak Sinha -
No silver bullet
09 December 2019 | Deepak Sinha -
The maha game of thrones goes on
27 November 2019 | Deepak Sinha -
Just a poster value
04 November 2019 | Deepak Sinha -
Pakistan’s hypocrisy
20 September 2019 | Deepak Sinha
Don’t disempower and demoralise the soldier
The Armed Forces Tribunal, for all practical purposes, is likely to be dead before the year-end. This means that military personnel unhappy at the manner in which they have been treated by the service have no way of getting justice In an article titled ‘Disempowering the Soldier’, published in The Pioneer...
Gambling for high stakes
Only time will tell whether the decision to abrogate Article 370 will turn out to be a grave miscalculation or hugely successful. One can only hope that good sense prevails In my last opinion piece in The Pioneer on August 3, I had concluded my piece with a plea for the...
Time to stand up for real
While Modi’s first term performance may be open to debate, what the current victory has done is to highlight the fact that he can no longer get away by foisting the blame on his predecessors Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent electoral victory can be clearly attributed to two essential arguments that...
A bitter pill to swallow
While historical, religious and socio-economic disparities may have forced us to adopt caste-based reservation policies, these very moves have been detrimental to the promotion of meritocracy. India’s loss in the World Cup is an apt example Poet Robert Browning had once said, “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,...
Avoid catastrophe of a war
Approximately 73 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world finds itself in similar straightened circumstances as the US once again puts into motion steps to curb the rise of another Asian power, China. We must be prepared to tackle the fallout American writer and philosopher George Santayana famously said, “Those who...
How integrated is our command?
We must have the ability to use our vast range of assets in a coordinated manner to provide the synergy required to realise our foreign policy, security and economic objectives After years of speculation, the Government has finally bitten the bullet and formally named the heads of the Armed Forces Special...
New front in war on terror
The local militant Islamist group involved in the attacks neither had the sophistication nor the ability to carry out such attacks. It was clearly steered more by the ISI than IS Despite all the confusion, carnage and horror of the Sri Lankan suicide bomb attacks, that killed at least 359 people...
