In the Opposition, the BJP always used flaming rhetoric about war and retribution. But when it came to power in the late 1990s, it was revealed as meek, confused, and caught off-guard.
With telling revelations, memoir, and account of history, Ajay Bisaria's Anger Management is a study of the diplomatic engagement between India and Pakistan.
In early 2000s, I saw a vehicle with speakers inviting people in Lahore to attend a gathering where Masood Azhar and other freed terrorists after the IC-814 hijack would speak about jihad.
Minutes after the IC 814 landed at Amritsar airport, makeshift communication was established between local authorities and CMG in Delhi—but lack of specific instructions botched the operation.
The IC-814 and Emergency controversies show we are still too thin-skinned to accept anything but deification of our leaders, biopics or biographies. This runs across the subcontinent.
In a 2003 interview with Shekhar Gupta, the late Brajesh Mishra, former national security adviser, reflects on how the week of IC 814 hijack & negotiations in December 1999 unfolded.
There's no evidence in existing declassified CIA documents to suggest if pressure was mounted on Islamabad to terminate hijacking plot or if New Delhi was given any specific warning.
Twenty-five years on, India is debating whether the producers of a Netflix series should have mentioned the Hindu pseudonyms used by IC814 hijackers. The inchoate rage hides painful national wounds.
In the centuries to come, economist Bibek Debroy's Mahabharata will attain the importance we attach to the texts of Shankara, Ramanuja, and Madhvacharya.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.
After reading the author name sagarika gohse, I know what she wants to write. By the way who is boxer journalist sagarika?
See what is happening in Bengal but not let’s talk about 1990 weak BJP. But why are you not talking about present BJP who has bring india foreign policy to the next level because you are a propaganda piece. How the print can allow a politician to write this type of carp in an independent news website?
Nostalgia tends to be rose tinted. Even so, have the highest regard for PM Vajpayeeji. A man of peace, truly a statesman. 2. Hazaaron saal nargis apni benoori pe roti hai. Badi mushqil se hota hai chaman mein deedawar paida.
Just look at this shameless human being!
Bengal is burning with outrage and indignation.
Instead of addressing the situation in Bengal and initiating a dialogue with the protesting junior doctors, she is waxing eloquent (non-sense) on the Kandahar hijack incident.
If she had a spine, she would have tendered her resignation. Just like Mr. Jawhar Sircar.
After reading the author name sagarika gohse, I know what she wants to write. By the way who is boxer journalist sagarika?
See what is happening in Bengal but not let’s talk about 1990 weak BJP. But why are you not talking about present BJP who has bring india foreign policy to the next level because you are a propaganda piece. How the print can allow a politician to write this type of carp in an independent news website?
Nostalgia tends to be rose tinted. Even so, have the highest regard for PM Vajpayeeji. A man of peace, truly a statesman. 2. Hazaaron saal nargis apni benoori pe roti hai. Badi mushqil se hota hai chaman mein deedawar paida.
Just look at this shameless human being!
Bengal is burning with outrage and indignation.
Instead of addressing the situation in Bengal and initiating a dialogue with the protesting junior doctors, she is waxing eloquent (non-sense) on the Kandahar hijack incident.
If she had a spine, she would have tendered her resignation. Just like Mr. Jawhar Sircar.