Zohran Mamdani’s faith, support for Gaza, dislike of Modi and Netanyahu are reasons why many in India are unhappy to see his rise rather than celebrate it as another ‘Indian’ conquest.
Return to hyphenation is dreaded because our successive govts have laboured for three decades to rid us of what we see as the equivalence big powers used to draw between us and Pakistan. Three things follow.
The Chinese use Pakistan as a cheap instrument to triangulate India between them. It is safer to presume that the Chinese now see Pakistan as an extension of their Western Theatre Command.
Asim Munir locked up Imran Khan, had his handmaiden parliament give himself an extended tenure. But the additional jingle of that fifth star will not change facts on the ground.
India is better positioned in the world than at any point post-Cold war. We have to decide if global opinion matters to us or not. If it does, we must engage with their media, think tanks, civil society.
Kashmir’s return to normalcy, for Pakistan Army Chief Gen Asim Munir, had to be reversed. Pahalgam wasn’t plotted in the week between the speech. It must have taken several weeks, if not months of planning.
At some point, Pakistan’s calculation has been, Hindus will rise in reprisal against their own minorities. That’s a crisis ISI has been conjuring up in India. A nation at war with itself.
While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
Mr. Gupta, the parallels with history, while not implausible, may not apply this time around, as the timeline- even of Munir- is quite likely to be dictated by China.
India should wargame scenarios with both adversaries in the mix.
So what are China’s motivations? They could be aimed at keeping India on the back foot or masking their own intentions towards other adversaries- any number of conflicts in S. China sea to a conflict with Taiwan – while world attention is focused on the two warring nuclear powers.
After planning for six months, socialist India will realise that it has no money left for socialism. Hence, it well back to ‘All money for socialism, no money for defence’.
Mr. Gupta, the parallels with history, while not implausible, may not apply this time around, as the timeline- even of Munir- is quite likely to be dictated by China.
India should wargame scenarios with both adversaries in the mix.
So what are China’s motivations? They could be aimed at keeping India on the back foot or masking their own intentions towards other adversaries- any number of conflicts in S. China sea to a conflict with Taiwan – while world attention is focused on the two warring nuclear powers.
After planning for six months, socialist India will realise that it has no money left for socialism. Hence, it well back to ‘All money for socialism, no money for defence’.
Five years to scale up to create impeccable deterrence against Pakistan. How long for China …