PM Modi showcasing Mithun Chakraborty as a prize catch in Kolkata rally was a poor advertisement of a party promising asol parivartan or real change. The washed out actor, a scam-tainted party-hopper, has no credibility. Co-opting regional cultural icons is smart politics but clutching at straws like Mithun betrays desperation.
Modi wants military to indigenise doctrines. Remember Indians lost to invaders due to outdated tactics
PM Modi exhorted military commanders to indigenise doctrines. Warfare is globalised science. For a millennium, Indians —Hindu or Muslim— lost to invaders because of outdated doctrines: Massed armies, kings exposed, late on gun powder, not breeding horses, and fooled by Britain’s 17th Century equivalent of 5G warfare, East India Company.