Israel sees Iran as an existential threat. But the US, Turkey & Gulf states fear refugee flows or attacks on oil sites. These countries need a stable end-state for the whole region over more strikes.
Students often lack exposure to seminars, discussions, & active researchers. Faculty engagement in sustained, high-impact research is limited, especially at the college level.
General MM Naravane’s memoir—Four Stars of Destiny—reveals that he was left hanging by political leadership for more than two hours as Chinese tanks drove towards Indian positions.
In the Indian education system, neo-casteism encompasses many forms of caste-based profiling, manipulation of nomenclature, political rigmaroles, and fearmongering.
Young boys who should be sweating about schoolwork are learning how to corner women. Are we now supposed to add children to the list of people we need to protect ourselves from?
For long-term investors and for institutional entities with substantial balance sheets, the effect is marginal. The primary burden is borne by high-frequency retail traders.
Defence Acquisition Council likely to take up P-8I procurement, cleared in 2019, in third week this month. Proposed joint production of GE F414-INS6 engine also on agenda.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
Though I find the false equivalence (“the members of jihadist groups aren’t dissimilar to recruits to criminal street gangs or, for that matter, Hindu-nationalist vigilante groups”), this is nonetheless concerning for the parts of the world that have not embraced this madness and normalised it.
Besides the military interventions that are already strong if bearing little fruit, we must acknowledge the power of outreach (“Dawah”) in encouraging/inciting thousands if not millions to “join the caravan.”
This article was a solid read until it started to downplay the religious fanataicsm that comes from the book, quotes the book, and lives and dies for the rewards promised in the book.
Socioeconomic factors may influence one’s vulnerability to radicalisation but this article regrettably tries to paint them as the alpha and the omega of radicalism. While loneliness, racism, exclusion ,and economic distress may make one susceptible to being radicalised, at the end of they day, it is a belief system they embrace, and kill and die in accordance with its diktats, handpicking those designated infidels, hypocrites, and apostates per the definitions of that belief system.
To give an analogy – smoking raises your risk of lung cancer, but this article is akin to claiming that smoking is lung cancer.
But the icing on the cake? This article totally lost me where the author equated radical groups like the Daesh to Hindu nationalism. This is blatant, shameless, pandering to the very forces that morally support radicalism from the periphery, their weapons being demagoguery and intellectualisation of extremism.
Though I find the false equivalence (“the members of jihadist groups aren’t dissimilar to recruits to criminal street gangs or, for that matter, Hindu-nationalist vigilante groups”), this is nonetheless concerning for the parts of the world that have not embraced this madness and normalised it.
Besides the military interventions that are already strong if bearing little fruit, we must acknowledge the power of outreach (“Dawah”) in encouraging/inciting thousands if not millions to “join the caravan.”
This article was a solid read until it started to downplay the religious fanataicsm that comes from the book, quotes the book, and lives and dies for the rewards promised in the book.
Socioeconomic factors may influence one’s vulnerability to radicalisation but this article regrettably tries to paint them as the alpha and the omega of radicalism. While loneliness, racism, exclusion ,and economic distress may make one susceptible to being radicalised, at the end of they day, it is a belief system they embrace, and kill and die in accordance with its diktats, handpicking those designated infidels, hypocrites, and apostates per the definitions of that belief system.
To give an analogy – smoking raises your risk of lung cancer, but this article is akin to claiming that smoking is lung cancer.
But the icing on the cake? This article totally lost me where the author equated radical groups like the Daesh to Hindu nationalism. This is blatant, shameless, pandering to the very forces that morally support radicalism from the periphery, their weapons being demagoguery and intellectualisation of extremism.